This 36"x36" oil painting was a commission for a friend from childhood who saw my recent work and contacted me on social media. She had a favorite photo of her two little boys and she wanted to know if I would consider making a painting of it. The funny thing was that I had seen this photo many years before and I loved it and remembered thinking at that time that I would love to paint it. In recent years I have been interested in vintage family photographs I find in antique stores or in archives from my own extended family, so this commission fit well with what I have been doing. As an added bonus, it also touched on my interest in the west, in cowboys and horses and western themes and landscapes.