One of my long time students wanted to paint a special project. So I said, "Pick anything you like!" A week had passed, and I wondered if he forgot about it. Then he presented my with a page torn out of a magazine. I began reading it. And he took it out of my hand and turned it over. A lion. We had not painted animals in class. And then it dawned on me that for the exception of a dog being held in a portrait, I had not painted animals -- at all. So I stalled a bit. My student reminded me that I did say, "anything." So we began, and this is the result. I wish I knew the original photographer to proper credit, it's a spectacular lion.
18"x24" Oil on canvas
