Just Me and My Bitch - 8 x 8 in, acrylic on studio board, 2015

It's was my mom's birthday recently, so I decided to paint her a picture of Sadie and myself. Sadie was my mom and step-dad's second lab that died way too early. She was the sweetest and largest lap dog and, for whatever reason, adored me. I miss her very much, but found a small amount of catharsis in competing the portrait. When I showed it to my parents, they cried; it was embarrassing. I realized that it might of been a sucker punch to their emotional vulnerability, or perhaps I actually did something nice.

Impossible to tell.