9 x12 graphite pencil on Bristol Smooth paper. August 28, 1987, three months after her 16th Birthday, my baby sister Christine Jennifer Corbett took her life. This was the worst day of my life and after all of these years, I am still haunted by the events of that day. I blame myself for leaving her alone on that day, I blame myself for so much..... I wanted to draw my sister as I remember her. The necklace around her neck, I made for her. I miss my sister every day and this was one of the most difficult portraits I did (other than my own) but it was one I had to draw. As I was drawing her, I felt myself going through so much emotion, pain, anger.....but then, I felt a certain peace come over me. With every portrait I draw, I feel her presence with me, I feel her hand over mine guiding me, I feel her watching over me, protecting me.....