Sharon's mom, 1920s

[chinakay]

I know...I thought that texture was a 70s thing, surprised to see it on a photo almost a century old!

[Treetotal]

I had a go too...Lovely photo.
Carol

[Treetotal]

One a bit different.
Carol

[terry h]

And two more.

Terry

[Aladdin]

I see you already have a lot of excellent restores. Here is a late one to add. I did my best to reduce the texture but not get rid of it entirely. I think it gives something of a painterly look to the photo.
Cheers Al

[terry h]

And a 'pink' version.... nice photo to work on.

Terry

[chinakay]

Woohoo! Absolutely smashing! I love them and Sharon is going to be thrilled...not that she's not already thrilled  Carol, the green is wonderful and did you "green" the eyes just a bit? That colour suits her so well. Terry, what wonderful colours you used, thank you for what must have taken you a lot of time! Al, haven't seen you in a while and I think I owe you a message...? I don't remember what we were talking about though Thank you for a beautiful colouration and you're right, the texture looks like canvas. The grey is a bit mysterious, don't you think? 

Beautiful, and again thank you all for wonderful work! I don't think I've seen such a great array of interpretations in a while. I've pinged Sharon to let her know there are more posts on the board

Cheers,
China

[Sharona4ever]

Hi everyone, I wanted to extend a personal thanks to each and every one of you. The pictures turned out really awesome, you are true artists!
Japeflakes...for the turquoise! & the black & whites
Hoobaloo....love the grey!
Pablo59...love what you did, making it so soft and almost impressionistic
Mozza29...another fabulous blue
Saddles.....what's amazing about yours is that my mom & dad had a pic taken of them in their 70's, and her dress is a lighter shade of the pink you used! love!
tommyfromri....(is that Rhode Island? I grew up outside of Taunton, Mass.) again, love the color of the dress...and her eyes
Treetotal...love them both! again, the eyes...she had very light blue eyes :-)
terry h....love them all, and you managed to make a lovely almost neutral bluish-grey dress out of that pic, and then that pink!
Aladdin...loved the way you used the texture, you're right, it does look "painterly" :-)

I am so so so touched that you guys all took the time to do this. And the cool thing? is those are all colors she *would* have worn!

I love them all & have downloaded them to their own folder on my computer, which I'll share with all my family!

Thank you all again so much!!!!

~Sharon~

[japeflakes]

thank you for the personal comments