Your significant other will think you walk on water !

If your anything like me guys, then when my Wife's Birthday comes around or our Anniversary or Christmas for that matter, I am absolutely lost, stupefied and useless at thinking of appropriate,surprising or novel gifts.

The longer we have been together the worse it gets, I used up my best ideas in the first Three Years, what am I supposed to do, I am just not a shopper,in fact my whole lifestyle and personal philosophy is based upon a loathing of shops and frippery. However this is never an adequate excuse when I stand before her on that special day and had over my feeble gift, full of guilt because I could not come up with anything original.

Lets face it when it comes to gift giving then Men don't have the genes, its genetic, we are hopeless, well most of us are anyway, that's what I thought until I received a request from Kings Galleries the Gallery who represent me and they passed on a request from a guy in Tennessee USA.

This guy ,Josh Nichols is his name , I cleared that with him first by the way, this guy wanted a gift for his wife for her Christmas present and as it turned out he was a thoughtful and inventive type of a guy in the gift giving department. I am telling you all this because like myself you may learn a little from Josh's insight into the female mind and you may be able to use, like me, some Brownie Points with your significant other.

Josh had decided that instead of buying his wife a Diamond Ring or one of those Pendent things that we guys have been encouraged to think by a well know jewelry retailer our wife's would love us eternally for. He would not join the queues of dazed menfolk wondering aimlessly around Jared's and decided he would have his wife's portrait painted instead.

Now that's a reasonable bit of lateral thinking for a guy but it was what Josh did next that took him from the realms of "Great Gift Giver" to the heady heights of "Gift Giving Genius". Josh decided he would get his wife's portrait done as she was when they first met and not only that he would get her portrait done in the format of a Classical Nineteenth Century beauty.

Wait Their is more ! Here is the clincher if you needed any more proof that this guy stands head and shoulders above us lesser gifting mortals, he had the portrait delivered to his wife's parents home in West Virginia where they would be spending their Christmas!

I told you so ! Genius pure Genius, not only did he score Big Big Brownies with his wife but now he has a mother-in-law that thinks he is the best husband in the world and knew all along that he was the right choice for her girl.

Of course I played my small part in this stunning victory over mediocrity by painting the portrait from an old photo Josh supplied and borrowing one of Mr. Dixie's Nineteenth Century models as my inspiration. The finished portrait I think is pleasing and effective and Josh has been reaping the rewards of his Genius and my skills as a painter ever since Christmas.

What more could you want guys ? Come on, I can do the same for your love life too for a lot less than you are thinking!

Portraits can be orderd through www.kingsgalleries.com