As another birthday rolls around and my fear of Italian pickpockets has yet to subside, it becomes clear that I will probably never visit Rome and get to view Michaelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel. So I'm doing the next best thing--painting faces from his ceiling. I'm working from a marvelous book on the restoration of the ceiling and some of the faces are very compelling. I've attached one to this entry. They are part of my continuing experiment of acrylic on heavily gessoed wood. If I get enough of them done I may panel our living room ceiling. (I may first have to pass this idea by Jan.)
