Graduation and Good Friends

Oil on Wood stump, approx. 2' diameter, 1.5" depth.

My good friend Carl (right) asked me to paint a portrait of him and his sister Katie (left) as a gift for her college graduation. In an attempt to split the wood to make a diptych, the wood was put through a "seasoning" process by experimental sessions of heating in a conventional oven. Nature vs. me, nature had its say and split the wood in three. This worked out well for a nice triptych. The project was fun, as well as very intimidating. Katie is a wonderful painter, and painting a portrait of a painter FOR the breath-taking painter herself is quite a nervous task! It was my pleasure to muscle through it and produce something for these amazing people that will last (hardly) as long as their strong and loving characters.