Life isn't about how many breaths you take, it's about how many moments take your breath away. There are a bunch, but nothing compare to the woman with whom I've exclusively shared the last 20 years of my life. She's the cause or at least shared in every single one of the highlights of the last two decades of my life.
We met when a muralist friend of ours asked each of us individually (and a few others) to assist with a large landscape execution. It wasn't until a few years later when she taught me how to airbrush and we went into business together that the sparks started to fly. We both have been making art ever since. I copy her ideas, she copies mine and we work together on nearly every project. This portrait is based on a photo I took of her before we were married in 1992. She was a medical student doing her internship when I popped in with lunch and a camera. I thought it was quite appropriate to render the image on board in ink with an airbrush. The photo of the painting was damaged a while back, but I thought it made the image better. Now that everything is manipulated in photoshop, I particularly love the analog nature of the painting, the photo (shot on film) and the destruction, which was just a little water spilled on a stack of photos.
Happy Anniversary Ange!