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Hi Piety--
A further thought about your project here, which seems to be to be about re-experiencing the little boy your son once was...
What can make a painting recall and/or communicate the smell and feel of something so much more than a photo--even when that painting is done with photos as source material? (given that it is as well imagined and executed such as your painting is, and not merely copied.) There's more information and richness of color possible, as well as texture, but maybe more importantly--there's also the handmade quality itself--the implicit time, care and tenderness necessary to create the image in oils on canvas. The intimacy of consciously noticing and recording each curve and fold.
As a kid at the museum, I remember the wonder of looking at portraits hundreds of years old (especially Rembrandt and Velasquez) and feeling the encounter between the artist and his subject as if it were happening at that very moment.
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