Red-Wolf-Rising

...and it has been just a little while.

I realized that there is only one thing that I am going to be able to post here at the moment. It is the ultimate in fan art... ...and it took forever. FOREVER. I would never have painted something like this for myself, no matter how many times I used to think about doing the interior liner note image from Appetite for Destruction. I moved beyond that moment some time ago, which is neither here nor there. Anyway... ...I am still hanging in there. Hanging on to those random reaffirming notions when things like babies giving small cats hand-shakes (instead of sitting on top of them to show them just how much he loves them because he DOES,

...to paint. To post. To go above and beyond and find that illusive truth that has had such a good time playing games with me. I say that as though I've not already been painting. I have... just not nearly enough. Being honest with myself, I would say that given the home-front scenario and the education and the house-full of mentally unbalanced people I am getting more done than I might have expected. It's good, really it is. Sometimes there is that vague feeling that it isn't enough, there could be more this or that or the other, I could do or say or be more than I am in this moment... but it is enough for this moment. Tomorrow is what i