"Waiting"

Waiting

 

 

Waiting ... for someone, for a light, for summer.

I don't smoke anymore; haven't for 35 years. But I sometimes paint paintings of people smoking. If women, they are glamorous because I grew up in an era where smoking wasn't unhealthy — it was, well, smokin'.

This painting is small, mixed media — watercolor, acrylic, gouache, Caran d'arche crayon — another prep painting for the big one to come. Waiting ...