A New Beach Portrait

I finished another oil painting last week. This was a painting I did for Ray and Karla, friends of ours from church. It's their son and his grandfather, Karla's dad. Karla's folks have been so generous to us over the years that when Karla asked me about doing the painting I was stoked.



At first I thought it would be difficult for me to give away or sell any of my "children," but now that our house has no more room, and folks seem happy to get them, it's a lot easier. I now look forward to doing paintings for friends and family to keep my hobby alive, but sooner or later I'll run out of willing recipients and I'll be back to being saddled with a growing stack of piled-up canvases.