Last week I told you about the great special to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Val Erde’s blog, Colouring the Past.
I was so blessed to get one of her free colorizations!
She chose my paternal grandmother, Marie Klein, as a very young woman. This is the photo:
And this is the gorgeous colorization that Val created:
Now I feel like I could touch my grandmother’s hair and her blouse! Val did an amazing job, as she always does. I think her skin tones are very accurate, and that has got to be one of the most difficult things to get right.
This photo shows me that my grandmother’s love of pearls started young. She always wore pearls and collected a bit more pearl jewelry over the years. She gave my aunt a string of pearls for her wedding, and eventually my aunt gave them to me (she only had sons). You can check that out at this post, if you like: Vintage Jewelry.
Val will be able to answer any questions about the colorization process, if you leave a comment here for her. And I will respond as usual, although I don’t know anything about colorizing!
The Family Kalamazoo 