[Rick Mullin]

Thanks Sarah-Jane,

Glad you like "Rose City." My daughter's apartment is on the top floor of the building, and she's pestered me to paint it. At first, I was annoyed that the street fair was going on the day I came to sketch. So much detail!

Lately I've been working outside with the actual paint--no intermediate pencil sketching, which is how I went about painting "Rose City". "Punchbowl at Drew University" just underneath it on the website is typical of how those come out. Come to think of it, the sketch for "Rose City" and the punchbowl (glacial) painting were done on the same day, after I sketched my daughter's puppy. When I retire, this will be a typical day ~,:^)

Lately, and for a while going forward, I think, I'm going to concentrate on still life, which are also painted directly. The pencil sketching I mostly do while traveling.

Thanks for the response!