I believe this painting is done.  I am happy with the gesture and the movement.  It is hanging in a spot in the house where I can see it regularly and decide how I really feel about it but I think it is very very close to being done.  Yeah.  Feels good to have kept the essence of the painting while allowing it to transform itself!

Hum!  What to do what to do.  Maybe nothing for right  now.  Starting at the top these are the  transitions that this fig has made.  I have tired not to make too drastic a change but slowly the painting has evolved.  As I look back at the initial fig I think I need to get some of what is in the first painting back.  There is lots of good stuff in each of them so I am going to let it rest and see where my gut takes me when I am next back in the studio.