"Pat on the Back"
Dedicated to all those who deserve praise, but rarely receive it!
My personal �pat on the back� as a professional artist was the sheer pleasure I felt teaching art to my first class of young children the summer of 2005!
After class one day, I drew a picture of one of my young male students while he waited for his mother to pick him up, and gave it to him. That evening at home, he painted a picture of me on his canvas, and the next day, he presented it to me as a gift!