Ghosts!

A new painting is up!! They're Like Ghosts was meant to be the first in a Point Break series, but halfway through the painting I realized that what I really wanted to do was a Keanu series. The painting was put aside, poor Lori Petty still pupil-less. I finally finished it today in an unheard of burst of productivity. Even though it no longer fits into my series, featuring only Petty and a blurry Swayze, I have great fondness for it, because its beginning heralded my return to oil paint after more than two years of acrylic. I had forgotten the delicious, foodlike texture of oil paint, the flexibility afforded by the long drying period, the colors.... I'm never going back.