Happy New Year to all the worldwide readers of my blog! I had a great time last night (last year!) ringing in the New Year and I think 2009 is going to be a year for the history books in a million good and bad ways! I'm excited to watch it all unfold... I got interested to paint this Merit cigarette ad from 1984 today, here it is work in progress. It turned out to be the same dimensions as a stalled painting of Blue Boy I'd started a while back so I decided to bid farewell to blue boy for now and blocked in this new painting. oil on canvas, 40 by 60 (in progress)