Marvin and Deladier,
I just received my issue in the mail yesterday and the article is great. What fun to see both your portraits and to find that they are so familiar to me, having studied both of them here on the forum. Deladier, I watched your portrait develop as you worked on it, and posted it here for comments and support, so it was especially fun to see it published in the magazine!!

My congratulations to both of you.
Patty

Thank you all for the kind words.

Nothing is as encouraging to me as the acknowledgment of my peers - and the honor of counting myself among you.

Thank you, Linda, for starting this thread.

My first words now that I am back in the U.S., with the noise of Beijing still in my ears, is the same as the above artists have expressed.