[Garth Herrick]

Welcome Monique!

It's nice to have you here. There are so many good oil painters and so few watercolorists. You're needed here!

I'm glad you are being able to pick up the pieces of your lives disrupted by the likes of Katrina and Rita and resume some state of normalcy. I can't even imagine that challenge.

You know, we probably crossed paths somewhere at the PSOA conference last May. I hope you don't mind me saying, but I like the first version of your son as a baby equally as much as your fixed version, because it has a more believable luminosity, in keeping with the setting. Sorry I didn't get to see it in person in D.C.

Again welcome,

Garth