I completed this for the purpose of giving it to my mother as a gift for her birthday this year. From left to right; myself, my late father Walter Langley Sr., and my little brother Joshua Mobley. My father passed away from a massive heart attack five years ago, and my mother still misses him every day. So do I and my brother. So do my other half-brothers, for that matter. I actually did each portrait separately, from pencil to inks to digital paint--and then I pieced the the three of us together and added a background. I chose the stars in the night sky as a symbolic representation of the ethereal, the heavenly--the realm beyond man's grasp. The realm of God, man's ultimate creator, and master of his fate. My mother ended up loving the gift--I presented her with a 11x17 copy, framed. I have an aspiration to add my other three brothers to this drawing--I think my dad would've loved having a drawing of himself along with his five sons!
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