With the new year, I decided to recycle many of the canvasses that were part of my July "Faces" show. Looking them over, I have to admit that maybe four-to-five of them were worth keeping. (Two of the best sold to friends.) So I got them down from the attic and gesso-ed the hell out of them. The excess gesso created a very interesting surface on which I decided to do more distressed portraits with color rubbed in by hand. I'll attach one to this entry. The style is looser and more spontaneous in some way. I'm going to stay with it until I've recycled most of the canvases. What comes next is anybody's guess.
