Artwork

Written by RJ on . Posted in Coleen, Discovery, Healing

My Portrait by Coleen

My Portrait by Coleen

This is a drawing of me that Coleen and Samantha did together. I wasn’t actually there when they did it, but it looks to me like Coleen did the outline and Samantha colored inside the lines. I like how I am represented with my curly gray hair, blue eyes, glasses, yellow neck to match my shorts, and what appears to be a bottle of either beer or root beer in my hand. Probably beer and judging from the color of the bottle it’s either a Molson’s or maybe Sam Adams. Wonder how Samantha picked that color.

I found this artwork lying around the kitchen after they created it and made sure that it went somewhere special. It meant a lot to me but I didn’t have time to properly deal with it then so I put it away until I was in the right frame of mind to bring it out. I’m glad I waited because back then, I didn’t have a venue like this to show it off. Now it’s on the whole internet and everyone can see what great artists I hang out with. I just wish those girls would have signed their work. Much more authentic that way.

Not many people know that Coleen always wanted to be an artist. Except maybe me and her friend Sue, the Painter. Coleen took some art classes and purchased an easel and a bunch of paints and art supplies. I always thought she had a gift but she never made a very big priority of it. If I could guess, I would say that it is something she wished she spent more time on instead of working so hard.

I still have all of those art supplies here. There are colored pencils, paper, lots of paint and brushes and that easel, too. Some are in the basement and some are upstairs in a closet. Someday soon, I will give them all to the Girls so they can play with Grandma’s unfulfilled hobby. I know she would like that. Just some more gifts she left behind.

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