It really feels good to be back to painting.  There was a time in the middle of this where I had pushed this guy to about 80% and was slogging my way through the background environment wondering why in the heck I decided to do bricks that I was having to really push.  Once the background came together and I got to push the color saturation on him, I was really back to enjoying it.  This one proved to be challenging with all the little details of the patterning on the jacket and the lace work on the cravat and, of course the brick but I liked pushing those little details that I hadn’t pushed in my other animals.  Anyway, I look forward to adding him to my wall of animals and who knows, sometime soon maybe I’ll finish the series and have a show and maybe get that alphabet book done.