These are the newly unveiled official White House portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama.
In former President Obama's painting, he's standing in the center of the canvas, dressed in a black suit with a gray tie.
Stewart McLaurin, president of the White House Historical Association, described the two paintings as nontraditional, unconventional and different. McCurdy said it usually takes him over a year to paint a portrait, and they start with many different actual photos. "As that time passed and I got better, people would ask me to do their portrait rather than buy a painting of a different subject," Sprung said."That was a great way to start, because then I knew that people wanted what I did, not what I could do."