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Last year, for Christmas, I drew the picture from Serendipity for my wife Amy as one
of her gifts. I was honestly shocked at how much she loved it. When I asked her why she liked that picture
over others I'd done for her in the past, it was because I'd captured such a happy moment. When I realized
that, despite drawing two scenes before from movies she absolutely loved, I'd naively picked two serious
moments from them (and they were Titanic and City Of Angels to make matters worse). On
November 15, 2005, in the middle of the night while she was working her usual graveyard shift at the hospital,
I searched through some stills from romantic films online till I selected this one from Just Like Heaven.
While this moment in the film is a bittersweet moment, I'd hoped she would connect with it and feel
it a warm image like the one I'd done for her before. I started the drawing around 3 AM and worked on it
on and off for weeks up until the day December 23rd when I reluctantly decided it was done [enough].
So here you have it! The finished product is 9 x 12, drawn in varying degrees of graphite pencils on
bristol board paper.
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