Well, a year or more has passed since starting this blog - must confess I forgot how to add comments (short term memory loss ;~ ).  I've been painting and enjoying some success on the local scene with 2 Best of Show Awards and more than a helf-dozen First Place in Oils Awards. I just joined the Oil Painters of America Society and hope to enter a painting in a nationally juried Show in 2013. My technique is evolving to a bit more...