Dr. Raymond Cohlmia

It is an amazing honor, when one of my clients contacts me again to paint another portrait. It is such an affirmation of the client's happiness and approval of the portrait painted for them in the past. I was recently approached to paint another portrait for the University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center, College of Dentistry. Dean of the College of Dentistry, Raymond Cohlmia DDS. is stepping down from his position to takeover as the new executive director of the American Dental Association, the nation’s leading advocate for oral health. After meeting with Dr. Cohlmia, I started visually introducing myself by crating a number of sketches, including the charcoal head study and the small compositional study, seen here with the painting in process. 

Here, I am delivering my completed portrait as I stand below the portrait I painted of Dr. Stephen K. Young I had painted a number of years earlier. 

And here is the finished portrait of Raymond A. Cohlmia DDS.