Growing a family... tree that is.

I have always wanted to paint a family tree, always meant to do it but just didnt have the right wall, or have known we would be moving soon.
But as we have a large empty wall AND will be staying in this apartment for three years, I thought it was time to finally paint my family tree.
I started searching the internet for other peoples ideas and designs but couldnt find something that really spoke to me. So I decided to draw my own. I knew I wanted it to be two trees intertwining together ( to symbolize two people coming together). I eventually decided I wanted the trees to create a heart shape, again to symbolize what the growing of the two trees together created (love, *ahhh sigh* sappy I know)

This is the original design drawing I made, along with all of my notes or thoughts on this project.

Here is the base finished tree trunks. I chose blue because I will have to paint over it eventually, and if I chose a darker color then I would be painting for days to cover it up. The trees are also different shades of blues to make them stand out, but also to symbolize different people.

Here, I have managed to put the leaves on. The leaves mimic a heart theme you can see going on here... again sappy I know. But it will make me smile when I cant have my family close to me in the years to come.

Here is the finished piece with the paper markers for the actual pictures back up in place. Just to give an idea of where things will go, and how it will look all finished. I am still working on getting pictures together and printed out.

Once I have it completely, completely finished I will add that to the list. But for now? Onto another project... Just wait to see what I come up with!!