This is a shameless plug

for my friend, Abby.
Abby is an amazing, amazing artist.  We recently commissioned her to do paintings of Hank and Marla.  This is what she gave us:

When I first saw these paintings, I cried.  They are so beautiful, and capture every nuance of their faces and personalities.  They are just amazingly incredible.  They are now hanging in our dining room and every person who sees them just marvels at their exactness.  In fact, more often than not, they think they are photographs!

For Christmas, we once again commissioned her to do a painting.  This time of Jake's parent's dog, Deacon. Deacon is climbing up there in age, and we really wanted to immortalize him in one of her pieces.

This is what she came up with:

Abby can be reached via email at chabby83@hotmail.com, or on her facebook or myspace. She is incredibly reasonable with her pricing - in fact, you should get ahold of her asap before she realizes that she's far too cheap!