Christmas Portraits

Towards the end of last year, November, I set up my mobile gallery at the Atlanta fall show and picked up these two portraits that were due for Christmas presents. I was a little nervous, seeing that I still had several other paintings to do for Christmas, but in the end, I finished these in plenty of time and my collectors were extremely happy.

This painting is an 18" x 24" oil on fine linen. This is the first time I used this fine linen and have instantly fallen in love with this canvas. It allowed me to get amazing detail and really held the paint better than any canvas/linen or panel I have ever used.

This second painting is also a 18" x 24" oil painting, as it turned out, this was a really cute candid shot of the son and his best friend. The original photo had the boy in a purple shirt and some logos that were very distracting. I changed the color of his shirt to pick up the beautiful blue eyes of the young man.