My sister, Karen, asked me to do some caricatures for Christmas presents.  Sometimes it is difficult to get good likenesses from photographs because details are usually not clear, and I really struggled and got very frustrated with these!!  Mounds of erasure shards, crumpled, tossed paper, and many spicy words later, I got as close to satisfied as I was going to get!

Her son, Brett got married this year.  He had fulfilled an LDS mission to southern India and wanted to carry that theme for his reception in Boise, and his new wife, Bailey agreed to his desire.  Indian friends of the family provided traditional clothes for the occasion, and the painting depicts what they wore.  The Golden Palace was a location that Brett had wanted to visit, but was not able, so I chose to make this the background.  

These are the aforementioned Indian friends of the family who love to dance and party, so I found some examples of traditional dance forms and costumes for their theme.

Longtime friends and neighbors who love the out of doors, kayaking being one of their favorite activities. I've done kayak pictures before, so I wanted to do something a bit different.  I thought a wet grass foraging moose in a lake coming up for air just at the right moment would be funny (and different)!