I did this painting today – it was a struggle to get to the studio at all this week and I took my son Adam with me, he was content, in another part of the Studio, working on his own laptop.

A couple of things were on my mind as I did this work – worried about a health issue my son and I got the answer that it’s all going to be OK.  

Also, I felt as if I was pulling back an old memory of a Delacroix Pastel I looked at several years ago - or perhaps, a memory that goes back to another life.   Something about the pattern in the sky pulled in an old memory.

Eugene Delacroix, Sunset, ca. 1849  Pastel, 190 x 240 mm, Property of the Städelscher Museums-Verein

I really don’t know why I was thinking of the Eugene Delacroix pastel today – I just was – and I can’t swear this was the exact one (above) or if it was a similar one.

What I have learned is to capture feelings quickly.

Tired now, but still have stuff to do; I was speaking to Jared Freeman, or Ancient Shriner, in Second Life about a Metrics Package for Second Life Sims – and that took me the better part of this evening.  Time for bed.  I have a lot of stuff on my plate for the foreseeable future – but at least, I got to pour my feeling out in my painting today – I fought for that and won!

Good Night, my online diary.