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Thank you all! Your comments are very much appreciated and respected, as you are all wonderful artists.
Terri--I'm glad the painting somehow makes you feel you know them. I wanted to portray them as very approachable and informal, but at the same time as professionals, and that can be a tricky thing.
Debra--I had such a time getting his mouth just right! But in the end it is really his, so I'm glad its idiocyncracies reminded you of your grandfather.
Chris--thank you. I knew I had to include the busy stuff on the table or it wouldn't look like their office. The books I added later (including the title Complexity and Contradiction on top of the pile) because the papers everywhere began to have too much sameness, and I felt there needed to be something with greater weight and darker value in the right bottom corner. The compositions come to me as a whole in my mind, and I'm very flattered that you think I do a decent job with this type of thing because it always feels like such a gamble.
Tom--I really appreciate that you feel the "air." There was so much color and pattern, I was very worried about nailing the subltety of the difference between the values in the foreground compared to those in the background. And thanks, I'm glad their character comes across.
Cindy--It's good to know you like the colors. It was the first time I felt that I succeeded reasonably well at such a high-key busy composition. The clothing was a combination of outfits from two different days. Actually I got a kick out of the pink/blue theme because it's the feminine/masculine theme.
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