There's a story behind this painting...of course there is!
Many years ago my niece graduated from high school. For a gift, I created a pastel drawing of her and her brother when they were very little.
Two years later, her brother graduated. I wanted to do something similar for my nephew and I even had the photo references. My daughter had gone out on the boat with my brother and his family and she had taken wonderful photos of my nephew wake boarding. I wanted to use those photos to create a work of art.
But there was the problem...I didn't know what form the piece would take or how to do it. So the photos have waited.
When I was playing around with the "wild style" of painting, I decided that the first attempt at harnessing the wildness in a controlled piece should be this painting of my nephew.
So, 10 years or so later, the time for this piece was finally right.
