Hey, Fearless, Gerry, Redd and Melissa - thanks so much. Fearless, that sounds like a good entry point for returning to painting - get into the studio, and just sweep. Pick up a broom, not a paintbrush - or something... Yeah! No, it doesn't just sound like a good idea, I know it is one.

Thanks for your appreciative comments!

Eileen,

Great work! Thanks for your nice words about my art. What was meant about "sweeping out your studio" is that I was away from painting and needed to get back to it, he suggested I spend some time in my studio --doing something common--like sweeping it out or cleaning it. It worked! It got me back on the right path.

Hey, S.! I know my pieces are mostly watercolor, here - if I could pick more than one area for myself I would, but since I couldn't, I picked the one I most WANT to be doing. At the same time, my recent oils are almost all portraits, and on the other hand, my direction of preference is into the surreal, especially what I call, for lack of a better term, Abstract Expressionist Dream Surreal - like Goat Squad.

I'll put some of the portraits on, and soon, a new horse painting... I'm just starting to move back into the AbEx Dream Surreal stuff.

And thanks for the compliments! I enjoy titling as much as painting, I sometimes think.

Excellent pieces, Eileen. Looking forward to more.