Another one of the beautiful scenes at the Dallas Arboretum is their Koi pond. The markings on this fellow are the actual spots - a big question mark!! Another park visitor pointed him out to me. It gave me a chuckle, and I hope you enjoy it, too! I call this "InKoiry" - get it? 
Meanwhile the long expectation of the Jews, especially during the reign of Herod, of a promised Deliverer was fulfilled, and one claiming to be the Messiah appeared - not a temporal prince and mighty hero of war, a greater Judas Maccabeeus, as the Jews had supposed, but a helpless infant, born in a manger, and brought up as a peasant carpenter. Yet he it was who should found a spiritual kingdom never to be destroyed, going on from conquering to conquer, until the whole world shall be subdued. 
This is my first attempt at an abstract-ish painting. I wanted to try out the new Fredrix Watercolor Canvas and discovered it requires a little instruction when used with strictly watercolor. My painting of a poinsettia looked like I'd painted glass with diluted Kool-Aid. At SWS last month, Sandi D'Alessando gave a demo on Yupo using an acrylic medium. I dug through my cabinets for the DaVinci fluid acrylic samples from the Nick Simmons workshop and decided to try something similar to Sandi's techniques to salvage the canvas. I had a blast finding shapes that emerged from layering and scraping paint! Those hearts were almost entirely formed without intention.
