My brother-in-law, Randy, has a friend that owns a trailer in the mountains near Idaho City, about 25 miles to the northeast of Boise.  Every year around mid May, a bunch of pals gather together for a weekend of male bonding; a kind of mountain man camp, no females allowed.  Lots of stories, drinking, cigars, and eating meat.  Randy asked me to do a painting commemorating the annual event, and I reluctantly agreed.  After A LOT of procrastination (two years worth) I finally kicked myself in the butt to finish so it could be framed and presented for this years camp.  The trailer is beat up and a boring, dirty white/ecru, so I added a bit of color to make it pop; and more interesting for me, since I didn't really want to do it in the first place.  The fire pit is actually farther off to the right, but I had to condense everything to incorporate all the elements he wanted in the painting.  The original is 9"X15" and done in watercolor.

My sister Karen recently had me paint a caricature for her boss, a gym owner whom we call Booty Brett.  Apparently it put an extremely unusual smile on his ever present sour mug, and he liked it so well, he decided to get a caricature done of his girlfriend for her birthday.  She has two miniature Pinschers, Ritter and Roo, so they were incorporated into the painting along with her love of wine and snowboarding.  This was done in watercolor.