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Changing the facts?
I'm wanting to paint a portrait of my three children, however, I am not sure how to handle it.
Marc is 5.5, Turner is 4 and Liza is 1. Besides the obvious issues of figuring out a good composition, not to mention actually getting them to cooperate, I have another unusual issue.
Marc was adopted from Romania, my other two are biological children. Marc is VERY slight in build, whereas the two younger children inherited our large builds. While all of them are proportionate for their heights, my biolgical children are blatantly larger than Marc. Even the baby's head seems larger than Marc's. (Marc is expected to grow to about 5'6" while Turner is expected to reach 6'5"!)
I'm afraid that to paint them as they are, Marc's slight build would have attention placed on him. My husband worries that might make him self conscious. What do you think? Do I just fudge the facts a bit and paint him a little more to scale with the other two or not? Or would just coming up with the right composition take care of this? I want this to be a casual portrait with the three of them interacting in some way. Any suggestions on how to approach this sensitive issue?
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