Comments on: Custom Portrait Call for Entries : Week #24 (6/8-6/12)

By: Custom People Portraits - Child Portrait : Autumn - Leanne Wildermuth : Artist by Nature

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:26:50 +0000

[...] can read Tammy’s entry here, and view the side by side photo/drawing by clicking here. Next Project [...]

By: Graphite Portrait Giveaway - Custom Portrait Winner & Call for Entries : Week #25 (6/15-6/19) - Leanne Wildermuth : Artist by Nature

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:30:44 +0000

[...] Last week’s winner was Tammy with her daughter Autumn, who passed away at the age of nine of a pituitary tumor. You can read her entry here. [...]

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:08:13 +0000

Thanks for your entries this week! Stay tuned for the unveiling of the winning portrait! Facebook fans will be the first to see the finished piece late Sunday!

By: Tammy Falke

Tammy Falke — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:54:23 +0000

Hello :-) I couldn’t help but to enter your contest because I have always wanted a pencil drawing of my favorite picture of my oldest daughter Autumn. This picture of her is in my angel cabinet, I collect angels in her memory. Autumn passed away at the age of nine of a pituitary tumor back on May 29th of 1992. Autumn was my oldest daughter, I have another daughter Sarah who was four at the time when her sister passed away. Sarah is 21 now. Autumn was named after the season because she was born in September on the 16th. I cannot tell you how heartbreaking losing her was…although over the years I have learned to live with it…but miss her terribly everyday. Autumn was my beautiful little girl who had a heart of gold and she always had a smile for everyone. My heart still breaks when I think of her life ending so soon and all the things we all missed out on because her life ended so soon. I do know she is in a better place, with God… so I do find comfort in knowing that. I do hope that you will consider doing a pencil drawing of Autumn because it would mean soooo verry much to me. Thank you and God bless :-) Tammy Falke

this is my favorite picture of Autumn
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39337488@N02/

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:05:36 +0000

Wait. WHAT???? No entries??? Holy crap. Of all the times for me to miss. I’m never going to wait until the last minute again, I promise.

Now I am going to go scramble for a photo to be certain that NEVER happens again.

I’ll be back.

By: Kimberley

Kimberley — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:00:55 +0000

Sarah’s our good old soul, a truly good dog if there ever was one. She is special for that and for the fact that she won us money in a video contest. Her “talent”, if you’d call it that, was begging for coffee beans. With the prize money, I was finally able to buy a DSLR.

She doesn’t get much coffee anymore, just a bean every so often. Her face seems to be more gray with each passing month, making her resemble a little monkey when you view her straight on. Her hearing’s beginning to go, but her eyes and nose are good and she’ll happily stalk squirrels and chipmunks for hours.

Here is the video that placed her in the top four of Mutt Madness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1LoMvfAYKs

And here is the photo I would love for you to draw.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardenwife/330524102/

Thank you! :)