My grandfather the artist

[nanila]

I brought home five sketches done by my maternal grandfather from my visit to my parents. I plan on having them framed when we eventually move to our new house

Comments

[sekl]

I love his style with the watercolor portraits. Nice that you can take these to your new home.

[jixel]

This is cool, thanks for sharing this

[cosmiccircus]

He was quite talented! Any of those would be cool to have in your home!

[ursarctous]

These are wonderful, how lovely to not only be able to collect such beautiful pictures, but to have a personal connection to them as well.

[flexagain]

Stylistically they are surprisingly different. Even the three figures, who are similar, still show some distinct variety, and the last one is quite different to the other two, probably because of the surround, rather than being against a white background.

All very nice though, definitely worth hanging up, even if your grandfather possibly thought otherwise!

It's nice when you can place something exactly, and for urban images, Google Streetview makes that so much easier now. A few years back, before Google went down that road, I found my Great-grandfather's old shop in Bristol, and the comparison between an old photo, and the current shop, is quite interesting. The current view of Brooklyn doesn't seem to be quite as salubrious as the older picture suggested at that time.