My student had a stomach bug, so decided to take the morning off and play .... in this case "play" means start a little landscape. A nearby cottage. Actually, it's surrounded by other houses, but from this perspective it looks distant and solitary. As inaccessible as a forgotten dream. Perfect.
You might ask why a just-started-painting is already signed and framed. Well .... I'm painting over a self portrait from 2010 .... one that always bothered me, and I seem to like it less every year. This morning it absolutely shocked me .... who is this person! Guess it's time to go, huh. Normally people yell at me for painting over paintings ... but not today ... so long ancient-portrait-of-me-I-never-liked-anyway. Sometimes it's good to see that the former things have passed away.
