[Chris Saper]

Dear Kim,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Your post was very uplifting in nature, and I wonder whether you might have alternatively titled it, "moving to my own taste", or some such thing,

I have found just the same thing happening to me, and in the same 12 month span. Although I have been painting portraits professionally for 13 years, I really think I only started ( STARTED!) to paint kind of well about a year ago. I am moving to my own raised bar, and even though I hear "Gee, I liked your old stuff better" the fact of the matter is I didn't like my old stuff better.

Even in the short time you have been sharing your paintings here, I just love seeing your forward motion.