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| Sisters heart with changes |
While I am finishing up another Art Heart, I had this little change waiting on the back burner. I just had a moment to slip this into the schedule.
One of the previous Hearts was for sisters who both were born with truncus arteriosus. At the time I created their heart, I was torn on whether to include some symbolism for a third child who was not afflicted with CHD. As the painting was detailed already, I opted to focus on the CHD sisters. But after some thought, I decided to incorporate symbolism for the third sibling.
I thought perhaps she should be there, looking over them from the background. I envisioned her as a brilliant bird nested in the tree, watching over the girls.
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| detail of the nesting bird |
Luckily I was able to add this symbolism as another layer over the branches using pastel pencils. The paper still had enough tooth to accept more detail, and I think the bird is just conspicuous enough without overpowering the design. I will be updating my original post to show the changes as well, if you'd like to see the entire process.
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