This piece was a long time coming. Unlike my more adventurous paintings that were responses to technical challenges from my instructor, this one began with my 16 year old son, Mike, asking me to paint him something from my imagination. That would be a piece of cake for some of my expressionist colleagues who snicker at reference photos and never know what they're going to paint until they've signed the canvas. But I'm a representational painter! I don't pretend to embrace pho