Although I did my best, I really wasn't that pleased with this mother and son portrait. I'm sure that it would suffer by comparison with the portraits done by dozens of painters here. Nevertheless, someone was fooled and thought this double portrait lifelike. That someone was my brother Rudy's dog, Enzo.
One day, months ago, I temporarily stood this painting atop our bed leaning on the wall.The door to the bedroom was ajar, and when Enzo tried to enter it, he was surprised to see a man and woman on the bed staring and smiling at him. Enzo stopped in his tracks and barked at the mother and her son, whom he thought were intruders. Only when I brought the painting to him and let him sniffed at it. was he convinced that the man and woman he saw were not real people.
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| Enzo trying to sleep off his embarrassment |
