it took awhile but here are the first two portraits that i wanted to post for you. i felt that i needed to wait until i had shared them with the subjects, who live in portland, oregon, and were visiting in august. now that has been accomplished and they went home with high quality copies (i am still not willing to part with original paintings yet....a sign, i suppose, of my relative neophyte status), i will put them up for more general viewing.
