Since last we met, many things have changed.
First, The Oregon Revolutionary War Memorial project is dead. There was not the interest to raise the money to make it happen, nor the interest from people to fund it. Sad to see it go after I spent since 2017 working on it.
Time to move on.
I have had one of my new books published this year, Freedom Through Their Eyes. This was a four year project of finding and documenting my ancestors and my wife's ancestors who fought or aided in the Revolutionary War. I was able to find 11 ancestors, and their story is in this 500+ page book, available through Amazon.com. A labor of love that is completed ... at least for now.
On the art side, Nancy and I just spent a week in Barcelona, a week driving through the Normandy and Reims countryside, Monets house and gardens in Giverny, and the cliffs of Etretat that he loved so much, and two weeks in Paris. Very inspiring and rejuvenating trip. The result will be at least a dozen new paintings and a new Behind The Paint book.
As you can see in the image above, I am also reworking the figures that I used in the ORWM. I am seeing if I can create an inspiring grouping of figures that will represent the quest for freedom during that period.
Stay tuned as I see what happens.
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