Borrowed Time

A custom portrait of a grandfather, drawn from a photograph taken in 1987.

The story

Borrowed Time was a commission for a granddaughter who had only ever known her grandfather through stories and one grainy Kodachrome slide. The drawing restores the sharpness the photograph lost: the crisp collar, the proud tilt of the head. Working from damaged reference material, the artist rebuilt every value by hand — a restoration more than a copy.