New paintings

Here's a dog portrait I just finished and a portrait of a little girl that is about half-way done.

I'm going upstate tonight to help my father-in-law with a painting workshop he's teaching. When I paint with him in his studio he'll check up on me every so often to give pointers but I've never actually seen him do a demo or teach a class. Should be enlightening. I haven't drawn a model from life in years, so I'm hoping to sit in on the workshop and see what horrors I can produce.