another new painting

ok, i've been working on this one since-- YIKES!-- april of last year. not steadily, i suppose. it went through a lot of transitions. in fact, the two "studies" at the bottom of this post have literally been cut/pasted into its composition. if you compare the studies to the final image, you might get a clearer idea of my weird process than you would from JPEGS (i.e. how everything is ...