Dad Looking Like Ted

I worked a bit on the sea turtle wine holder design today, but it was difficult to simplify the coloring enough for mass production.  I will let my sister-in-law Joyce worry about it. She paints the wine holders that Ted makes with his jigsaw.

Next I worked on a watercolor painting of my Dad from an enlarged photo.  I refined the drawing, and then I painted in the color areas fairly lightly. I was shocked to see how much the painting of my Dad (at age 42) resembles my 58-year-old brother Ted.  Now that I look at it again, I think I made the head too small.
This is my first portrait of a person, and it isn't easy.  Back to the drawing board.  And back to reading Putting People into Paintings.