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I painted this portrait from an old picture of my family members (now all deceased), sitting in church.

Michelle “Chelle” Brantley is a portrait artist, artistic painter, and illustrator. A native of the East Bay Area, Oakland, CA, Chelle began to draw at the early age of three years old. Chelle was not quite a child prodigy, but she always had a great fondness for the arts; probably more so than other children her age. She spent most of her time drawing and tracing pictures, reading books, listening to different types of music and watching old films. Chelle’s love of music theatre and film contributes greatly to the subjects she chooses to translate onto canvas. Chelle began painting in her early twenty’s right after the death of her father. What began initially as a form of therapy for her loss became a new found career, and she has...