HappyFamily Heard

I LOVE the amount of thought that Courtney put into her piece. She made it a labor of love, as you can tell her family is to her too! What a darling family! Look at those smiles! Don’t you want to SQUEEZE each one of them! Here is their entry:

What are you family Members names, ages, color hair, color eyes, etc.? And, tell me a bit about their personality.

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Daddy- Andy: Brown hair, brown eyes, 34 yrs. FUN, caring, always up for anything and a great dad to our crazy kids! LOVES sports, especially LSU FOOTBALL, his kids and ME!
Works hard everyday and comes home to us and turns into “Daddy” the second he walks in the door. He’s AMAZING!

Me- Courtney, blonde hair, blue eyes, 35 yrs.(yikes! 1st time I had to write that number! can’t believe im that old! Make me look young!)
My life these days is taking care of our 3 very active kids, all under the age of 5!
you can find me picking up crayons, handing out sippycups, pretty much waiting on them hand and foot……The Days of My Life! But I wouldnt have it any other way. :)

Molly- 4 1/2….Brown Straight Hair, Brown eyes. Calm, sweet, princess of the family, caregiver, artist, ballerina, gymnatist and loves to ride her bike and scooter. Shes the light of my life!

Nancy- 2years old! Enough said! Does everything you can imagine a typical 2 year old does!
Shes my spunky one!! Blonde curly hair, blue eyes. Looks like me, but acts like my husband! Walks with a strut, wears her pink or red cowboy has often as she can. Loves to dig and dirt, play with bugs, push her baby in strollers, go to the park….anything to keep her busy. She loves to go anywhere!

Carter- 1 year old this week!! Light Brown Hair and Brown eyes.
My BABY…. The little prince of the family! He is idolized by his sisters. they do everything for him. Therfore he is very lazy! He basically has 3 Mommas and he likes it that way. He’s pretty laid back and easy going SO FAR! Loves to clap his hands, swing in his little red swing outside and go for walks.
 

The 3 to 5 prominent colors I would like in my piece include (be specific—ie. “royal blue” rather than “blue”, or “light celery green” rather than “green”): *  

I’ll include more detail below as far as color goes.

You can also be creative. Im open! :)

The girls love them some PINK!!

Is there a career path you would like to include in an illustration (ie: I illustrated the husband as a police for the Brown family portrait): Not really.
Tell me what you would like to see your family doing (would you like them just sitting all together posing, as if for a picture? Or would you like them to be doing something together). Please supply the most details here:
Well, I’ve come up with so many fun ideas, but when it came down to it I would really LOVE for you to illustrate our family in our natural state! And you can find us in our front yard most saturday or sunday afternoons as a family. Are you ready..? Ive got some details! :)
So here goes…..
I would us in front of our house.(Ill send pics)

Molly- The 5 year old.
I would like her standing on the Pogo swing to the left of the tree. Wearing her ballet outfit and ballet shoes and pink bow to match. When looking at the picture her bow is on the left side of her head.
She wears pearls around her neck quite often!
The pogo swing has red, blue and green polka dots on it. It might show up in the picture I will send you.

Nancy- The 2 year old.
Blonde, short,Curly hair and blue eyes.
I picture her standing near the flower beds in front of the house, either picking all my white flowers, digging for roly polys in the dirt or showing us a beetle she just found!
She’s a girly girl/tomboy!! I also picture some butterflies flying around her somewhere. She loves them as well. She loves to wear pink. Either wears a little bubble that shows her little legs or a short little Lilly Pulitzer Shift Dress. And she loves her RED STAR COWBOY BOOTS!! I would like her to wear those. And of course a bow in her hair too! She wears her bow on the right side of her head when looking at her.
If you have room, but not needed if you cant fit it in….She loves her babydolls and to push them in those little umbrella strollers. So if you can fit it, maybe have it right next to her somehwere.
Wow…thats alot for little Nancy. She’s a little spitfire and full of personality.

Ok, now my sweet little boy, Carter Heard!
Loves his red, wooden swing in the front yard. It hangs on the same tree as the pogo swing but to the right of the tree. Can you put him in the red swing.
Big brown eyes and long pretty (girly) eyelashes!
He has his 2 little bottom teeth and they show EVERYTIME he smiles or opens his mouth. I would love it if you could capture those two little teeth!
He ususally wears blue or green. A little boys summertime Bubble that shows he’s baby legs. His outfit normally has his monogram on it. Which is CAH. Or cHa.
Not sure if you can put that on there or not.
Ill send a pic.

Andy…..DaddyBear as he is affectionately called around here by his sweet little girls.
Not sure where I want him standing in the pic.
He’s always running around helping one kid with something or another. You could have him maybe standing by the tree with the kite string in his hand, trying to figure out how to get it out of the TREE!!
You see we always have a kite stuck in the tree that pretty much resides there at all times. A barbie kite to be exact. It has a picture of Barbie on it. And everytime we go out front to play the girls insist Daddy try and rescue it, but we both know….its never coming down. But he likes trying for them! :) He’s a FIXER!
Wearing a baseball hat. Dark brown hair and killer smile! Thats why I find him so charming.
Either kahki pants or shorts, running shoes and a polo shirt. Maybe purple shirt with LSU logo on the right chest. And he might not like this, but its gotta be in there somehwere… A beer bottle in his hand or close by him on the ground. Maybe even spilled beer bottle in the grass instead of holding it. Its 5:00 somehwere, right!?
He’s notorious for spilling his beer!
(He no longer has a beard, which he might in some pics I send you.)

Me- Courtney
Standing by Carter, pushing him in swing. Usually wearing jeans with a big cuff in them, some cute tory burch flip flops or flats, with a cute top and some fabulous jewelry. Normally wear my pearl studs with a big chunky necklace of some sort. You can be creative with me. :)

House-
White flowers in both flower beds on either side of the front door. They are normally in front of the little green hedge bushes. Also flowers and lots of greenery in the wiondow boxes to the right of the house in the front two windows. It should show up in the pic I send. Wreath on front door, Something neutral.

We have 2 golden retrievers too that normally grace us with their presence.
Mason- the older and larger one. Darker golden color.
Blue bandana around his neck. Normally running after a ball.
Charlie- younger one. Slightly smaller than Mason. and you can find him sitting at Andys feet most times with his little toy in his mouth. Its a green rubber toy that he is completely obsessed with at all times!! Green Bandana around his neck.

Oh, and maybe a pink soccer ball in the grass somwhere. Only if you have room. Not a big deal.

Any other details you might be able to give me that would help ensure your enjoyment of the piece: I would love to be able to see all family members eye colors.

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Courtney, I’m so glad you went with this concept! Courtney had a few ideas when she first applied for an illustration, and I love this one that she chose. I love to create pieces with the family house behind them. Even if it’s not going to be a forever house for the family, it captures them as they are now. I loved working in that detail for you Heard family!! And all your details!!

MUCH LOVE to you al!!

xox,
Katie

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