Grape Bowl in Progress

I am just dying to get back to painting. I'm trying to play catch-up with my work load and have even hired a part time intern to help with some of the web elements of my day job. But I have paintings waiting that will just have to continue to wait since they don't generate income.

This is one of the paintings in progress. It still needs a lot more work as you can see, but I think it's coming along very nicely. I'll tell you this; crystal is hard! Maybe cheap glass would have been easier, I don't know. But that little bowl was a gift from my mom after the birth of my second son. It's a Waterford and it catches the light like you wouldn't believe. Capturing all those colors makes me go cross-eyed. The actual picture is below. I probably shouldn't post the actual image. My painting looks really good until you see the real thing. But I want to show the level of color that the crystal picks up, even in the reflected image. It's just amazing!