I started by deciding to follow Violette Clark's (Violette.ca) spreecast that is part of my 21 Secrets Workshop. The title of her section is called Doodle People & she starts by doodling a few faces. I'm not good at drawing pictures from scratch, so I started looking for a face I could use .... And came across two very meaningful photos.
The first one is a copy of a copy of a framed copy of my mother's mother and father on their wedding day, taken at the soldier's hospital during WWII where my British grandmother met my Canadian Grandpoppa when he was recovering from losing his leg in a bomb blast. She looks so young, tall, confident, and beautiful in her two piece dress suit and hat. It's a fuzzy dark photo so I couldn't copy it well, but I did the best I could.
The other one is a picture of me, my mother and my father's mother all dressed up in old-fashioned hats at the town's one hundredth birthday.
Very quickly after I started sketching, I realized that the direction this journal entry was going was not the same as the "doodle people". So, I followed my heart instead. And I am sooo happy with the result!
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