Since she spends so much time with portraits, Anna throws herself into learning how to paint while still fairly young. She initially isn't very good, but perseveres and eventually decides she's going to practice by painting portraits of her sister. First, it's memories of what Elsa looked like before she locked herself away (as a child Anna's size because she hasn't learned spacial reasoning yet), but as Anna hits her teens and she's gotten better, she decides to paint her how she thinks she looks now. But needing to ask Kai and Gerda to help tell her if she's close, if Elsa's hair's worn like this, if her eyes have darkened or if she has more of their mother's features as her memory has faded, Anna eventually leaves crumpled sketches, paint streaked canvasses, and eerie, heartbroken blank faced portraits behind, abandoning painting altogether.