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Are you working on anything these days?
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Self-preservation, mostly, as I'm over here in SARS territory.
Actually, though I haven't been able to pursue it vigorously, owing to a pending overseas move, I'm working on a portrait of "my" Sarah. I'm "losing" most of my art materials next week to the movers, and won't rejoin them until perhaps late July, so I'm beginning to feel a little anxiety about that.
Since I'm back, I might mention that I did a small painting very much like yours, with Sarah in almost the exact environment -- even the same slant of beach -- as you chose. She was turned away, though, and looking down at something -- seashells, perhaps. I'd done the painting as an experiment in rapid execution. Sarah saw it shortly afterwards, not having known I was doing it, and said, "Hey! That's ME!" That was my affirmation that I'd gotten the job done. And to tell you the truth, I don't know where that painting is right now. In a warehouse somewhere, awaiting the depletion of my wanderlust.