My FC studio has a propane heater and I can’t use oils when it’s lit. I got to work there today. These are two 30″ panels. I don’t know whether the doors will warp, but I put the paint on in washes. I really like the effect. I know I will put more paint on them, but maybe I can save some of the wash areas. The color is so delicate, and the panel is not.
top heavy
I’m more excited about the spirals, I don’t know why. This is going the right way, but as I post this I notice that all the spirals at the top are the same width. Break it up!
Yeah! Sunshine!
I worked more on the river. 
snowed in
The advantage of being snowed in is I get a lot of work done. 
Fear is a Mind Killer
I started this when I had health care ins. Now I don’t and the FEAR is mind killing. I wish the jerks in our govt. would get off their high horses and think about Americans, not reelection.
NYT article
On Feb. 14 Roberta Smith wrote an interesting article in the NYT. One paragraph resonated. “What’s missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand. A lot but not all of this kind of work is painting, which seems to be becoming the art medium that dare not speak its name where museums are concerned.”
I was wondering why art was now a manufacturing medium. Hooray for paint!
river
There’s snow in places that don’t normally get snow. The global climate isn’t all that’s changing. I’ve always liked the patterns of the topography when I fly.
Tree of Life
Sorry for the shiny photo. The panel is 80″ tall, and hard to light, so I used the flash. The tree is progressing, roots on Earth, reaching into space.
Earth
I lightened the Earth and tried to make the tree hold together while still descriing the spirals. 
around the bend
I tried to show the painting around the side of the panel. Actually I painted with the panel upside down today, but thru the magic of Photoshop, this image is right side up. A painting should look as good upside down, and backwards, as seen in a mirror. I regularly use a hand mirror.