Well, it is nearly Thanksgiving. I wish you well for the holidays. WRT to my art classes, I have a couple of portraits to share. The first is of a model named Brian Baxter. When I finished this painting I kept reading in it a sense of sereenity, almost religious in nature. There was something about it that reminded me of Warren Sallman's "Head of Christ." The latter was an image that I saw a lot during my childhood. I'm not sure what I find similar between them. Maybe, quiet composure and seriousness. Anyhow I recognized that something internal was wanting to express a religious feeling.

So, following on the heels of this, I gave creedence to the desire to create a religious image. We had a young woman next as our model: an artist named Kathryn Hinton. She had a soft appeal, which lent itself nicely to this endeavor. So here is my latest. I'm calling it "Madonna with Blue Scarf." This photo is prior to adding gilding to the halo.