The new year started with the arrival of five big canvases from Utretch. This was following the arrival of my very large easel, a present from Jan. That spurred a resolution to go big this year and try to complete about twenty more large portraits. Like all resolutions, this one hit a road bump when I found some small 8 x 10 canvases in the closet which I promptly gessoed and painted over. Here's one to the left. Now I am envisioning about twenty of these as a series. (Hey, they take less time to paint.) So I guess the bottom line is that I am not quite sure the new year will bring. Maybe a little bit of both.
