Magnifique!!!!!!!! like always, excelllent!

thanks dear Milad.

OMG..GREAT GREAT, I love it a lot, a true masterpiece, it's really fantastic, extraordinary, what pleasure, great tribute for Elvis, congratulations, billions of tender kisses my great friend and master shahin

thanks a billons times.

BRILLIANT !!!!

thanks sellia.

NIICCEEE

thanks Jessie.

thank you.

Great!!!

S*U*P*E*R*B!!!

thanks dear Lanka.

so fine! are you left-handed? have I asked you that before? now that there is a signature, it seems to come from the left - oops - the left hand?

Yes I am left handed! This is a rare occasion that my painting subject looks at right (his right and our left)!

hEY! i just found out that you are left-handed. I am left-handed also. Joyce

HEY! i just found out that you are left-handed. I am left-handed also. Now I know that I am in good company. Joyce

Some psychologists say left-handed people have higher IQ than right handed ones. What you make of it?

I do not know the answer to that. I do know that left-handers operate more on the right side of their brain, and perhaps that helps when it comes to artwork. I know it didn't help me with math, though. Michaelangelo was left-handed, but then so was Einstein, I believe. I wouldn't place myself with either of them, so being left-handed doesn't necessarily make one a genius.

A reasonable opinion!

Like I said, left-handedness didn't help me a lot with math. I got a final "A" for the course in my High School algebra class, but dropped out of it in college, after I went from A to D. However, this was a good twenty some years after I had graduated from H.S., so I'd forgotten most of it. I would catch on, but by the time I did, the class, all younger than I (most fresh out of HS), were on to something else. A young man offered to tutor me, but I declined. I wanted to concentrate on my Spanish class, instead.

Forget the math, you have already a great talent in drawing and it is enough to show the magic power of left-handed people!

Wow! That is really kind of you, Shahin. Thank you so much. As for math, as long as my husband is alive, I don't have to worry. He is a fine mathematician. So are our two sons. One works for Boeing Aircraft in Seattle.

It seems you have a nice family with various tastes!

Yes, Air Traffic has been a part of our family's life, since Ed was an Air Traffic Controller and I was a Stewardess. We are proud of our five children. The oldest, a son, is a mechanical engineer, but he now holds a managerial job with Boeing. Two of our girls followed their dad, and became Air Traffic Controllers (ATC's). The oldest girl retired three years ago. She was an ATC Supervisor in the Albuquerque, New Mexico Center. The middle girl is working at ABQ's Center as an ATC now. The youngest girl works for the US State Department in South Carolina, and our youngest son is self-mployed in Texas. He is a tile setter.

for your family members:

Most kind of you, dear Shahin. My thanks, and may God bless you and your loved ones.

thought so - me too - normally only about 15% or less of the populace, I'll bet it's 30% here and among artists generally - the world is constructed so right-handedly (tools, cars, scissors!) we all become ambidextrous and lefties are accident victims relatively twice as often!!!! So...what?....take care!

We have to establish our own club and defend ourselves against right-handed oppressors!

but there are so many! we;ll be outnumbered 6 to 1 and they'll have scissors and chain saws!

Chain saw? ? I like horror movies so I am not afraid of them! I am ready for the challenge! (My evidence: I put a Peter Cushing portrait on the waiting list!)

that'll be great I'm sure ... I just flicked by a little clip of him as the shadow-thin Star Wars commander on the dark side - he made a perfectly sinister horror film foil - looking forward to it!

His smile always fascinated me! Great Job Shahin!!!

yes he had a unique smile and I tried hardly to capture it.

Shahin, if you were a dentist, i would be your most faithful patient, drawing teeth like that, i can only imagine how great you would work with teeth in real life!

I spent around 20 minutes only on teeth. It was a small part of the face but at the same time the most difficult part of it!

20 minutes! i never time myself drawing... maybe i should... NO rather not!

My new portrait will show you a new set of white teeth! I put it in the waiting list!

i am going to have a look just now!... my computer is so slow, it sometimes makes me go all crazy... maybe i should bite it?

Another winner from a Master artist. I LIKE IT!

thanks dear Joyce.

You are welcome, my friend.

You are like Rumpelstiltskin...spinning straw into gold!!!