Oh, my goodness!  If any of you have never gotten a painting by graphing a photo, don’t ever try to convince me there is no drawing involved.  This is the image I told you about that just begs to be a painting.  God makes His forms so beautiful and I absolutely love to use His work to make paintings.  That means that the way a curl falls or the way a child’s expression presents itself, or even just the light on a subject, those things are what I want to capture for others to see.  Of course there is a special merit in being able to capture a scene, a mood or an emotion with quick painterly style. YES, but , I have always had a special fascination for what is true and real or the perception I have in front of me.  That is what I capture and I think that is why these paintings lock people into them.   People become part of what is happening.  They feel the experience I am recording.  Oh, you cannot know how happy it makes me to be in this developing stage, or any other of the stages.  Yes, sometimes there is a dark moment, with doubt and mistakes, but I am on a journey with each one and I don’t stop, usually, until I get to the destination. Just had to tell you.