These ladies rowed past my floating home in Portland, Oregon nearly every Saturday.

I decided to start photographing them and then painting them.

This is the first in the series of paintings I created,

MY PRINTS ARE NOT JUST PRINTS:

For those who do not know, I totally repaint my prints.

Prints are usually dead, lifeless and flat.

For that reason I never sell a print that has not been repainted, of the entire surface, in essence creating a new "original".