[Garth Herrick]

Dear Marina, Alex, Michele, and Julie,

With your solid support of you four greats, I am feeling pretty good! Thank you all! The value massing was my best spontaneous alla-prima guess, as for most of the painting, once I laid the initial gesture of paint down, it stayed there, scrubbed in and all. I did paint it at a section at a time, though. I have retouched and reworked small areas as an afterthought. The face and hand are reworked too.

Humbly,

Garth