January portrait

[Chris Saper]

Dear Bill,

What a delightful treat to open my Forum email to this posting! One of the many things I find so interesting about your paintings is that they look so very finished from a distance, yet when you're able to view something up close, the painterly nature of your work gives just as much pleasure to the eye, yet for a variety of different reasons. The edge variety in the close-up is so instructive to me.

If you get a chance, would you post a close-up of the hands/arm? That forearm definitely has the "squishy" feeling you have descibed before.

Thank you so much for this wonderful contribution.