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First Portrait Many artists use computers to enchance and minipulate photographs, but Lisa Wood ('90) uses technology to turn ordinary sonogram baby pictures into fine art. To create each piece, she transfroms the colorless photos with creative hues and striking contrasts. The process allows her to enhance the feature of each baby. Wood earned a bachelor's degree in interior design from UNT, and her husband, George ('92), received a bachelor's degree in geography. They started ArtInUtero a few years ago after Wood got enthusiastic respones from family and friends fro whom she'd created protraits. "I gave protraits to some friends at a baby shower and they cried," she says. "George and I then came up with the idea of buisiness." A former interior designer and corporate saleswoman, Wood uses a scanner, commercial and custom software and a digital painting tablet to create the portraits, which are printed on cancas or watercolor paper. Wood tries to decipher the personality of the child from the sonogram. "Most people say, 'Do what you think looks best,'" she says. Wood's art hangs everywhere from household living rooms to art galleries and medical offices. She has received commissions for nearly 20 works, and an expansion into greeting cards and shirts is under way. Dr. Justin Jordan, a chiropractor, has about eight portraits of his patients' children hanging in his clinic in Grapevine. "One of my patients purchased a portrait for my wife," he says. "It was one of the best gifts I've ever gotten. I think they're so unbelievable. We have a least one or two people ask about the portraits daily in the office." The Woods have three children, Sydney, 4; Samantha, 3; and Carlson, who was born in April. Their portraits hang in the couple's home. A gallery of the artwork is available online at www.artinutero.com |
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