Watercolor Couple Keepsake Illustration

Transform the uploaded reference photo into a hand-painted watercolor illustration. Use the supplied photograph as the authoritative source for subject structure and visible details. Work from a photo containing two people. Preserve each person's separate facial identity, apparent age, skin tone, height relationship, pose and clothing. Retain the exact number of people and visible hands; do not merge faces or invent accessories. Paint both people with the same transparent watercolor vocabulary and balanced detail. Use warm skin glazes, restrained dry-brush hair strokes and broad clothing washes. Keep the contact between their shoulders or hands legible without outlining every edge. Retain their relative positions and original interaction. Replace incidental background clutter with one light, desaturated wash and leave a clean paper border. The result must read as a new watercolor painting on subtly textured cold-press paper, with translucent pigment, purposeful brushwork and varied edge softness, not a photograph with a texture overlay. Avoid oil-paint impasto, glossy 3D rendering, heavy cartoon outlines, decorative text, signatures and watermarks. Return a single finished illustration, not a before-and-after comparison, collage or framed mockup.