Girl With Troubled Eyes

After giving an artist talk at a recent show, I got the feeling the audience, mostly 'artists' themselves, thought I could only paint one way. No artist can usually paint in one manner only; it is a matter of choice. And, I'm glad to say, even though I'm no longer the proverbial spring chick, I'm still growing and developing on the inside---where it matters. So I sketched out something that, truthfully, may have been slightly more alluring than the finished painting. But it was exactly that difference that gave me its title. This is a 12 by 16 inch acrylic painting on gallery-wrapped canvas. It's what's commonly referred to as Original Jones Art in these here parts, being Austin, Texas.