Mother and son

 I found a photo of Lisa with her son Ian, and thought it was the most joyful photo, him laughing full out and her looking a little goofy, the two of them so much alike in spirit, so I decided to paint them.

As usual, things didn't go quite as I planned—Lisa got too big to leave room for Ian's full face above her...but as it turned out, it made me think of Athena springing fully formed from the head of Zeus, so the fact that his face is partially obscured as if he's emerging out of her brain is okay with me. (Or at least that's the story I'm telling!)

Then I found this saying from Emerson, which seemed to go right along with the theme, so here it is: "Out of the Brain of Lisa."

Pencil, Daler Rowney inks, India ink, black Uniball Vision pen, white gel pen, on 140-lb. Fluid watercolor paper, 9x12 inches.