"This baronial portrait of my handsome stud Jaxon Browne and my big, beautiful princess Sophie Tucker, were the best birthday present ever. I love it! I love it! I love it! You have captured their true Bouvier spirit." — P. Wilson, Mill Valley, CA

     "I wanted to give my bird dog hunting husband a birthday gift with a special humor. He loves to go out for pheasant in the woods with our six shaggy retrievers, bag 'em, snag 'em, and then come back to our portable campfire and celebrate with a few martinis. Jeff reversed a few of the roles and came up with this hilarious portrayal which we all hooted over. It was a bulls eye. Thanks so much!" — Kim C.

     Martha contacted me and wanted some way to memorialize these two boxers because of what they meant to her. She had suffered during a painful divorce and the thing that got her through it was the unconditional love and sense of family that Roxy & Badge gave her.

     Roxy was the prissy female. How prissy? Well, one time a farmer came to the house and approached Roxy to say hello but his hands were dirty. She backed off. Now, that's prissy so I put her in the beauty parlor being doted on. And Badge, the alpha male was the crotch hound. One of Martha's friends while visiting went to look in the frig for something to drink and bent over. Badge bopped her in the you-know-where and she went face first into the frig. Priceless.

     These were just a few of the stories and memories that Martha shared with me and they got translated into these two 22 x 28 originals on canvas that now hang in her dining room.
"Badge, Suave Debonair and Drooling."
"Roxy, Good Thing They Have So Much to Work With."

—J Leedy

                                            
"Roxy. Good Thing They Have So Much To Work With."              "Badge. Suave, Debonair And Drooling."

Hot Tamale with a Shoe Fantasy

     This woman's sister commissioned me to do something about her sibling, a successful Puerto Rican American businesswoman. She wanted me to capture the essence of her.

     But once I received her written stream of consciousness, I glommed onto her sister's fantasy about having a huge walk-in closet with hundreds, if not thousands, of shoes in oak and glass display cases that revolve, so many shoes that she needed a custodian.

     I think it may be a fantasy that many women can relate to.

     After finishing the piece, her sister and I negotiated a great title, "Watch Out, Imelda!"

—J Leedy

—J Leedy

     General Jack Chain's daughter-in-law wanted a special commission for the General's 70th birthday. We talked a bit after she sent me all the information and photos of Jack and his wife in their lovely Colorado mountain home.

     I reviewed the pictures and all the stuff she had written about him and to my dismay discovered that there was "nothing funny" or peculiar about Jack. No irregularities, peccadilloes or things weird about him. Uh-oh. What was I to do?

     But one thing stuck out in my mind: besides being a four-star general in the Air Force and on the National Security Council, he had flown some serious jets in his day.

     So I decided to put him on the golf course, taking a good cut at the ball. All looks normal except for replacing his normal transportation with a fully loaded F-16 fighter jet. Oh yes, I added his golf clubs in the open cockpit.

     My wife, Elaine, came up with the title and the family loved it to pieces.

—J Leedy

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