10%

The full throttle scaling of my version of Mount Everest continues unabated as I now have complimented 10% of my huge 7'x5' acrylic, watercolor, pen & ink, and pencil piece. So many media, so many strokes - I wonder what the viewers are going to say once they feast their eyes on this. I've got a long ways to go before this is completed, but it's easy to get excited over this piece.

Of course, the whole intent is to make it the first painting people see when they come to my 5-piece exhibit. Probably not the 4 smaller ones, thats for sure, but this biggest art piece I've ever done in my life. Too bad the gallery is never gonna get a cent out of this - it's for my wife. Her name appears in animated form 21 times, to signal the 21 years of marriage. I know it's corny, but it matters that only I know about this.

I feel giddy moving forward, but I'm even more excited my web designer would be seeing it because, the last time she was here, she only saw the penciling of the artwork, and it wasn't even done yet. Now, the rendering and the painting is done, and even my own domestic helper is saying it's a masterpiece - of course, that's something I would never admit, but painting of this proportion is exactly that because I probably can never make another one at this size. I'm pricing this out of buyer's range - 600K to be exact. Plus, a limited print edition of maybe 10 pieces, framed, at a naturally much lower price.

I'm pumped