"Joan you have outdone yourself, again. It is completely different from the first painting and I love both of them. Guests from the last party were asking if you would be here again and new guests were amazed and kept asking where I found you." ~ Lucas' beautiful Mom.
For Lucas the theme was THE BEATLES with an iconic British phone booth, huge 7' guitars, gold discs on red walls, an ice sculpture of a guitar on an amp - with his name and bar mitzvah date - and to which I added another gold disc. I used the cover the Abbey Road album and substituted the beatles for the Bar Mitzvah family on the zebra crossing. Front left is a portrait of the three siblings, 18 months older than the last time I painted them at the older brother's bar mitzvah. Standing by the ice sculpture are the grandparents, who look just as dashing as they did the last time I painted them, and behind the groups of boys and girls is the Hora.