I did another mountain view with my friend Christine Boulet against Mount St. Victoire; it was her idea but of walking out of the picture frame against Mount St. Victoire.  Christine  took me on a tour of the rocky plateau of Bibémus two months ago and I’m eternally grateful for that - many of my videos from the Paris Trip are of Aix, Cezanne’s Studio and Mount St. Victoire.

And now I want to say something else - I put a lot of healing energy and love into this painting and I’ll send it to Christine shortly, along with the first one.  I’d like to think my painting will bring good things to Christine, who’s having a pretty tough time, and I really hope it does - I certainly put my soul and hoped I captured the healing energy of Mount St. Victoire.

Enjoy…Christine!  The colors are pretty close - I have the painting in front of me as I view my post and, perhaps, the only thing that I would change is some of the darker colors, shadows, are a little more pronounced than the picture - but with a 1.3 Mega Pixel camera this is as good as it gets (or I can get it).

And I think I got Christine as she walks out of the picture - and even the face, while not as perfect as I’d like to have made it - I’m not unhappy with it either.

Overall, I like this painting and I hope Christine Boulet likes it too.

And that reminds me, Peter Wallace, the owner of Brooklyn Artists Gym, came over to me and said my work had improved a lot since I’ve been painting in the studio and that my pastels (that I’ve chosen Pastels to work with) have gotten much, much better.

That felt good.  I replied to Peter that I’m lazy and that’s why I use pastels and he said, no, that’s on the case - your not lazy and your suing the medium that suits you, Peter said…..pastels.