Living in Color - a piece of amazing Bobby art!

I keep promising things I'm not doing, so I can see the loss of confidence by those of you waiting for the "Day is Done" commentary.  But the good news is, it is almost done!  I intend actually for that to be my very next post.

For this post, I want to share with y'all something an artist named Terra Gedeon did that is BEAUTIFUL -- and something I know Bobby would be so proud of.




Crystal came to me specifically requesting a portrait of this legendary actor, Bobby Driscoll. She envisioned him coming from black and white to color. Essentially rising from his internal darkness to becoming free from his fatal addiction. The only photos that can ever be found of Bobby are in black and white. There are articles talking of what his skin color, hair color and eye color were. So, we brought him to life in color! Crystal described him as this: “He was more or less a "child actor", the first, actually, to be hired by Disney. He was in Treasure Island, he was the voice AND live action model for Peter Pan, etc. He ended up falling into addiction, as have so many child actors since him (he was one of the original child actors in America), becoming so broken he left everything behind and went to NYC, where he died of drug-induced health problems (a heart attack) a homeless John Doe, buried on Hart Island. No one recognized him or even knew he died until his mother sent a private investigator to see if they could find him, and they matched up fingerprints to figure out that that's what had happened. And all that's very sad and hard, but it makes it ten times more poignant when you learn, as I have after TONS of research, that he was such a person of light and love until he was ruined by drugs. I feel he is at peace now. I've just felt so very drawn to his memory.” 

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I was obviously jazzed to see this, and had to share it with all of you, even though some people might be tired by now of me posting so much artsy stuff.  I absolutely love the premise of Darkness to Light -- and this girl did a really great job nailing the color that I can imagine Bobby's eyes might have been.  That sort of light, in-between green and brown color.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this beautiful thing for post-Valentine's Day!