"These are the new 2010 acquisitions."

"This portrait of my Dad was painted for my father's 75th birthday by my husband Kris Mleczko. It was a surprise gift so there was no formal sitting, instead Kris based it on a picture of my Dad take at Easter this year and added a Poudre background composed of three different pictures of the area of the family cabin there."

"The portrait is my Dad's 75th birthday present. Kris painted it in his free evenings over the last month - the process took about 26 hours of time altogether. The background of trees as they appear in Poudre twas time-consuming."

"11-14-2009. The leaves started falling from the plumeria and Kris put them to a good use."

"This is Kris Mleczko, my husband, with a portrait of the daughters of some friends of ours. He started it in 2005 but didn't finally finish it until this spring (2009). It took him about 200 hours of work in my estimation - with many lengthy breaks. He wishes he could devote more uninterrupted time to painting but it's hard having to work full time as a pathologist."