This is a painting of my friend Marybeth and her first baby, William, from 2018. (She is now pregnant with baby #3!) In reality, Marybeth is much more slender than I've painted her here, but I used my artistic license to exaggerate the size of the mother’s figure. I wanted to capture the feeling a baby has of being totally enveloped in the largeness of his mother’s love. To him, his mother feels as large as the Earth itself, holding him safely. She is his whole world.
Here are some more sketches of Marybeth and baby William:
And then, a few months later, William is walking! A new era has begun…
Further reading: Baby Sketches (drawings I did when my own kids were babies)