Artwork / Archives / 2022 / Hugsalot
![child portrait miniature painted by Lambertville artist Gwenn Seemel](/images/2022/2022Hugsalot.jpg)
Hugsalot
2022
acrylic on panel
3 x 2 inches
For the first seventeen years of my career, I painted portraits almost exclusively from photos I’d taken myself of the subject, but, when COVID hit, that all changed. While I miss meeting all the people I paint for a variety of reasons, there have also been some fascinating discoveries, like this image of a little boy. I’m not sure I would have picked such a classically cherubic image of the child if his mother hadn’t been the one to send it to me.
Hugsalot reminds me of Daughter, though in that case I was working from my own photos, just as the child’s mom was. You can see the making of Hugsalot.