well, I've been busy! Ha! Ha! kind of anyways...I finally finished my sister's painting, although it took 2 years to do it. I had a very hard time getting into doing a landscape and also doing it to spec. I don't generally plan my paintings out, so the whole process kind of frustrated me. I kept trying to put some craziness in, but had to resist considering who it was meant for. so now I can do landscapes...we'll see how I can manipulate that in the future.