Pride on Parade

acrylic on panel, 20" x 20"

A blue heron in mating mode.  Just for fun.

Can I get a smile?

oil on panel, 24" x 24"

I painted this for a class project called the "Three-headed Portrait."  I used a cropped version of a photo I had taken in China of a class of school kids on a field trip to the famous Three Pagodas near the town of Dali in the Yunnan Province.  Only when I zoomed in did I notice the face on the baseball cap that looked like it was floating in space.  I thought it could serve as the third portrait in my composition and an amusing counterpoint to the serious expressions of the two kids.