Family portraits
Three Generations
A composite family portrait combining three separate photographs of a grandmother, mother and daughter into one drawing.
- Medium
- Graphite pencil
- Surface
- Bristol board
- Size
- 59 × 42 cm
- Year
- 2024
- Time
- About 70 hours over five weeks
- Made
- From a photograph
- Subject
- Family portraits
The three subjects had never been photographed together. Working from separate references, the composition was planned in digital sketches first so that the lighting and scale matched before any graphite touched the paper.
Composite portraits are a good option when relatives live apart or when a loved one is no longer with us.