Harry Painting

I don't typically paint from a photo. When I do I fuss too much about the painting looking too much like the picture. But in this instance I wanted to paint this favorite photo of my grandfather, Harry Depping. Though he had what most would consider a traumatic experience, he turned out a happy person. After having been kidnapped by his own estranged father and traded to bootleggers for gambling debt. Harry was eventually found three years later by his mother after she finally camped out by the river bank with her attorney.