I have been exploring ideas and various options for solving the lettering problem at the bottom of "The Woman At The Well", but I have been unable to come up with a viable solution.  Somehow, there has to be a good way to get the lettering on there that looks good.  I...

Now that the image for "Woman At The Well" is finished, I have been crashing all day.  When I work, I run so much on adrenalin, especially when things are flowing fantastically well, that once I'm done, I can't turn my mind off.  Consequently, I have not slept much...

I finished the image portion for "The Woman At The Well" tonight!  Woo-Hoo!  I LIKE HER!  I dread, however, doing all that lettering at the bottom... I have included two shots here:  one showing the incomplete water pot, just to show the work in progress, and the...

I'm so excited!  I got the background fixed to my liking; "The Woman At The Well" has a face; I love her hair; her skin looks like a real person's skin; and I gave her a scarlet head cover!  I have not painted a portrait face for over 30 years, and I never could get a...

Well, I had company for seven days last week.  My sister was here for a visit, and it seemed we were constantly doing something or going somewhere!  We had a great time, and we took her back to her home an hour's drive away this past Sunday afternoon.  Here it is...

I started coloring in the background on the 24th July, and it didn't meet my expectations.  I worked on it some more on the 25th, but it still didn't suit so I didn't post a photo.  You know how you can think about something so much you can become totally overwhelmed...

After killing a lot of time yesterday trying to get the perfect pattern drawn for lettering in "The Woman At The Well", I didn't get very far...poor spacing; letters turned out to be too large; etc., etc.  Today, I chucked all that and decided to freehand my own...

Yay!  I have finished the pattern for "Woman At The Well"...except for the lettering at the bottom, which will quote the passages from John that this scene is based upon.  I hope to do that tomorrow, but since lettering is tedious and boring for me, it may take a...

Today I began working on the pattern for "The Woman At The Well".  I had photographed my model, Amina Antoury back last Thanksgiving.  She is the niece of my pastor, and her heritage is Moroccan and Sicilian Italian.  She definitely had the "look" I was searching for,...

Well, I have been very silent here for the past few months while Jim has worked out many problems with the site.  We still don't have it just the way we want it, but time waits for no one, and I have finished some major projects I needed to complete before I could...

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