Christine McKay and Debi Schmit will be showing with me in Big Sky on Saturday. These images are of their work. The porcelain sculpted piece by Christy is called “River Runners” and is wonderful! Debi’s painting “Farm Maid 11″ has such a beautiful old world style! You may see more of their work on their own websites.

“Hector” was the first student portrait I finished for “The Many of Faces of Andover” project I am doing for Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. It is an oil, 24″ x 30″. Hector is from the Dominican Republic, and he intended to become an Engineer. He was introduced to fencing at Andover and loved it! He chose to model for me in that outfit. It was also important to Hector to have both the American and the Dominican flags represented in his portrait. www.andover.edu

This is the second portrait I’ve done for Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. My daughter attended PA for three years of high school. It’s an amazing, academically rigorous college prep boarding school. I can’t say enough good things about it. www.andover.edu

For this project, I took pictures of twelve different students, and plan to do paintings of the same. I intend to focus on the diversity of the students, and their special interests as well. Every student there has a unique and interesting life story. They are kids from all over the world. One of the PA focuses is to enroll “youth from every quarter”, and they truly do. This portrait is of a girl named Yendi. It is an oil, 24″ x 30″. Yendi is from NYC, and is now in college, hoping to become a Doctor. She found dance at Andover, and loved it.