They have the same eyes.
I just got back from Alaska where I was visiting my Uncle Rob, my father’s brother. Seeing Rob always reminds me of what’s neat about family.
Gwenn Seemel
Robert and Richard
2005 and 2006
acrylic on canvas and acrylic on canvas patchwork
21 x 23 inches and 20 x 20 inches
The two brothers may not resemble each other in their temperaments or their politics, but they are, without a doubt, blood. It isn’t so much in their features, as in the way they move, their expressions, their gestures, and even the way they think about things. This past week we discovered that both my Papa and my Uncle Rob had cut out the five-day forecast from the paper for a few weeks and lined them up in order to see just how far off the predictions were! How is it that two men who haven’t seen each other in ten years can be so similar? I don’t know, but it’s one of those things that makes family lovely.
Gwenn Seemel
Kristan and Nick
2006 and 2007
acrylic on burlap and acrylic on canvas
48 x 34 inches and 21 x 17 inches
These are my two brothers, my father’s sons. Both sets of brothers have those certain Seemel-shaped eyes, and Kristan and Nick have our Papa’s dimpled chin.
Gwenn Seemel
Annie and Self-portrait
2003 and 2006
acrylic on canvas and acrylic on twill
33 x 28 inches and 17 x 14 inches
This is my mother and myself. I’m a dead wringer for her, especially in these portraits since my hair was cut something like hers.
Gwenn Seemel
Kristin and Nancy
2008 and 2006
both acrylic on canvas
both 24 x 18 inches
Only rarely do I get the opportunity to work on family features outside my own relations, but I love to do it! These two lovely ladies are another daughter-mother pair. The way they carry themselves is similar, though they tilt their heads in a slightly different way.
Gwenn Seemel
Eric and Andy
2008 and 2006
both acrylic on canvas
both 24 x 18 inches
These two are from the same family as above, the son and his father. I didn’t mean to echo the composition of Andy’s portrait in Eric’s. I did the paintings at a two year interval, and it was only after I had completed Eric’s that I noticed how like the father I had made the son.
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