Thinking Winter in Spring

Here's a painting I showed you earlier ("Flexibility" post in the April archive). Now it has its third and fourth layers of paint, and it's starting to take shape. Next comes a couple of coats of gloss medium, and then I think some dots.



This is the one that's supposed to be winter, although I'm not sure it's turning out all that winter-ish. Maybe it will look more like winter with some snow! It's nice to see it reduced, as if seen from a distance. Usually I'm right on top of it, and it looks different that way. It's 36" x 48" so it's kind of hard to get back far enough in the studio to see it.

Well, I don't recommend changing your name mid-career. What I'm doing is only a very minor change, from Cassie to Cassandra, but it's still a lot of work. New website, new business cards, name change on everything from resume to cover letters to blogger ID. I have artwork on websites all over the Internet, and the links to my website on all of those have to be changed. Is it worth it? I guess I'll never know, because I won't know what would have happened if I hadn't made the change.