Hi to all my subscribers and visitors. This is what happens when my artistic brain is moving faster than what my mind and body can keep up with!!! I have at least four current paintings in production, two or three waiting for last minute adjustments and a dozen or so in preparation for sketch, transfer or beginning work! Some ideas just insist on being breathed into life, which means they must be begun. I didn’t take the photo references for this one. My daughter Mollie showed them to me and they screamed at me, so, I put them all together and came up with the composition. I’ll show it to you as I get more done on it. I just love the way this little guy looks in the surrounding grisaille! My sister in law, rest her soul, used to plead with me to let a painting stop at aa midpoint. She enjoyed the raw possibilities they expressed. So do I but I like them finished too. I apologize for not posting more but this has been a catch up week on so many fronts. Yesterday I took Bruce to have steroid injection in His back. Already he seems to notice improvement. Now I am feeling as though I just cannot find enough time to get everything done. Patience. I am so blessed to be doing this. I am also spending a lot of time studying Torah and now languages, since there was a special on the program from Rosetta Stone. Of course my students told me this week they want to continue. Well, I love this effort as much as they do. I’ll hibernate the rest of winter and hopefully have a lot to show for it in the spring. Hugs to you all. Hope you get something out of this. Shalom, Diana