Will look good on your Christmas tree, I think.

Hi, Steve! You think so? Thanks!

A clever done triptych Diane...............nicely captured and presented.

Thank you, dear sir!

I really like this triptych. You've always been good at doing combined presentations like this.

Aw, thank you so much, raingirl. I did them when I was still a painter, too.

What type medium of painting did you used to do? Oils, watercolor? Do you have any of them here on ipernity? I'd love to see.

I have only a few here, because I sold most over the years and a few are in storage. www.ipernity.com/doc/1227338/album/945878
I used acrylic, mostly, also oil when I could afford it. When I was still in school and super-broke I painted big canvases with latex enamel house trim paint. Comes in bright colors - yay! Also used oil pastel and colored pencils a lot for little drawings. Don't know where all of that is, probably storage. It's been years since I had room to paint (much less stretch canvases!) and, more important, the right environment to sell them (SF Bay Area). Those were my happiest times.

I love your paintings. I'm I get to see them here. How wonderful that you had the "right environment" to sell them. Using house paint - that reminds me of how my mother would always make do with what she had. If she didn't have the exact thing, she would improvise. Often it would end up being better than if she had the exact thing. Our friend who is a painter and has downsized has gone to painting little things. I think it would be hard to go from broad maybe full arm painting to tiny wrist bending stuff.

Honestly, my hands are too arthritic, now. Also, with tiny work, you really do need decent eyesight, which I don't have now. I guess I'll try it again anyway.

Why not? Perhaps it will bring you some joy in the making, even if your results don't match your expectations (isn't that always the way with artists anyway?).