Andrew's mother asked me one day, "How long does it take you to do one of those paintings? We'd like you to do one for us." I got so excited. I wanted to do a painting for them, but I didn't have a picture of them that would work in this style. Then she corrected me - she meant one of me and Andrew. She and Poppy are such sweethearts.

Andrew and I did a self-portrait photo-shoot that devolved into complete goofiness. We weren't getting any good pictures thanks to honked noses and fingers in ears. Near the end of the silliness, I caught this shot. I knew it was the one I would use the moment I saw it.

This painting is on 30" by 40" gallery wrapped canvas (no staples show around the edges) and was completed in the fall of 2004. I painted the 1.5" deep edges black in lieu of a frame.