The first picture I did I had to keep quiet. I had heard my mother had liked the mother and child picture I had painted earlier but that sold very quickly. Here is the repainted version I did for her for Christmas. I was told it was one of my best painting yet by one of the brush-ka-teers. He enjoyed the way all the colors in the painted were combined into the background. I did not have the heart to tell him I was too lazy to clean my brush! Ha! I like this one too as does my mother. The next painting is one I have been working on bit by bit. I never committed a lot of time in one sitting. It was fun to whittle away at. I call it "supporting the arts". I was speaking to the director of the council of the arts during a show once and brought this up as how it would make a funny painting. It took off from there. You may notice for fun I thought it was appropriate for the painting in the upper right hand side of the picture to be "the scream". I know, I need to work on my humor. Anyway it was fun just painting from thought instead of a picture or nature. Let me know what you think. Thanks for looking, Dean
