Feathers all about

I'm taking this portrait to critique tonight, just as I had left it. I tried cropping it with a mat, and like it better with the vignette. Good news: the model is buying the painting. She likes it as is. I can't think of any better motivation for leaving a painting alone! She may mat it. I showed her pictures of it both ways.

Thankful for this and many things. We are still paying bills without Patrick doing carpentry and without borrowing, waiting on God's provision. I always have cash for the model fees, too. How are we making it? Patrick is starting to get reliable pay from Wheels. He keeps finding things around the house to sell on e-bay. This month a set of drums are paying the mortgage. I have steady graphic design work right now on a catalog, and I also had a successful workshop on PhotoShop for the Fine Artist.

I expound on all the bill stuff to remind myself: I can make a career of painting. Life is good. Aho.

Family SharePlan at its finest

I must confess how badly this painting session ended last Tuesday.
My son had arrived and was wanting the car keys, just as Deb T was reciting a very funny and lengthy tome about drawing noses during L's 5 min. break. His ring tone went off 3x during her recital, which I felt ruined everything for everybody. I left in the middle as quickly as I could and the darned door went BANG. I was ready to kill him by the time I got to the front door. Verizon "family sharing" at it's finest!!
Mind you, when I cooled off I realized it's way uncool to bite the head off someone who is merely trying to call you. I did take full responsibility and apologized. The next morning, he reprogrammed all my ring tones to vibrate. We're cool, but I still have to face everybody Tuesday.

So I didn't even look at this painting until today.
I was afraid I painted L. angry.
But she looks rather sad.

I like it.

The answer is 30

There are a total of 30 squares in the 4x4 square grid.

Think more clearly about what's inside the box.

Be more than a 16 square person.

That is my challenge to myself.

Quiddity

"Quiddity is a philosophical term meaning the essential nature of an object— what something actually is. Quiddity bangs against the world-view of let's-vote-on-it reality." —C. Blake

Count the squares you see in a minute. How many are really there? There is more... the essential nature is more than we first see.

The answer will be in the next post.

Taken from Searching for a God to Love chapter 2 "Stalking the Wild Truth" by Chris Blake