This isn't really a portrait, but it is a landscape/figure painting featuring a young man lost in thought while fishing. Actually, it's of my son who just returned from Afghanistan, and visited us recently. He had spent a lot of time fishing with other relatives when he visited them earlier, and wanted to go fishing with me, in spite of the cloudy, windy weather, and the fact the fish weren't biting much. It wasn't until I looked at a quick photo I took of him later, that I realized he was probably just finding solace from a particularly rough deployment in which several soldiers under his leadership lost their lives. It reminded me of the Hemingway short story "Big Two Hearted River" in which the character Nick Adams had just returned from WWI and found solace in fishing that river. I entered this painting in the Killeen Civic Arts Guild "Just Landscapes" competition, and I believe (I'm not sure) it received an Honorable Mention.
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