I got a banjo for my 27th birthday! Now I’m really excited to learn how to start frailing about! Yes!

In other news,  I have started two larger portrait paintings than my more recent work.  Both are on wood panels. One measures at 18″ x 24″ and the second at 18″ x 18″.  One is going to be a portrait of a young lady covered in insects (clothes will be made up of bugs basically) and the other will be of a lone gun-woman (what is the female version of  a lone gunman?) waiting for a dual on the street of a western town.  I felt like visiting old themes of late with these new works in progress, but with my style twisting them up a bit.  So enjoy the early photos of my crazed pencil markings before the work gets too painted up.  Wish I had gotten a picture of the lady with the bug problem before I painted her face.  Oh well.  I try to work fast.