[Mike McCarty]

Jean,

Thanks for the nice comments.

I was talking to my mother (living in San Antonio) a couple of days ago about my new painting of her granddaughter. I credit my grandmother (my mother's mother) for giving me the belief that I can do this work. My mother has on her wall a portrait that her mother did of her a very long time ago. It is done in oil on some type of wooden board about nine inches round. She is posed not unlike my daughter above. My sisters and I will no doubt fight over this painting some day.

I don't think that I try any harder to make it right, but I do feel a pressure to leave something behind. There won't be any brothers or sisters for my daughter to fight with but maybe I can create some turmoil between my great grandbabies.

p.s. I hope to get a photo of the painting of my mother and possibly include it in some way with the above painting on my new web site. "Colleen by father, with grandmother by great grandmother."

My daughter is starting to show some interest in painting, this could go on for a long time.