Mari,
Thanks for your kind words. Right now, I am beginning a 40" x 60" commission of a lady in a green satin Edwardian gown at the foot of a grand stair. Well, at least that is what it will be. The dress is being made, I have just gotten the linen for the canvas, and we are still in search of the perfect staircase somewhere in Colorado.
I am also doing a charcoal commission of a lady and her dog Drake, am in negotiations and planning with client for a possible commission of her three children (one of whom just recently passed away suddenly), and am beginning the color stage of the Graces painting that is on my website in verdaccio.
Marvin,
We all come from differing backgrounds and have differing experiences. I for one appreciate that you are very passionate about painting - something which I definately feel myself. You are also a wonderful painter and we all benefit from your experience and learning from your work.
Clearly there are many ways to create a painting and not all of them are equal, but we live and hopefully learn and better our art through reading, time at the easel, personal instruction from better painters than ourselves, and the benefit of forums of learning like this one.
I think it is important that we acknowledge our differing opinions about art and are free to discuss them. It can be difficult to do this without treading on some toes from time to time. I know I have done it countless times. I just trust that people understand that regardless of how pig headed I am being, I have good intent.