I hate beginning posts with I, but since it is about me and things I'm interested in and or care about, I guess it makes sense. Worked some more on the paintings that I showed last week, except for the one with the verical lines splintering the image, update photos will be at the end of the post. I started thinking about my thesis more, and I thought of George Bailey. Who's George Bailey you ask? Why would would I think of him? Why he's the main character in It's A Wonderful Life. Gerorge gets the opportunity to see what the world would be like without him in it, and it's not great. George gets to be in another reality, so to speak, with the help of an angel, second class. I thought, what if George saw a world that was not only not great for the people he cared for, but also everyone in general. What if his very existence held together something that kept things in order. As soon as he was subtracted, things fell into chaos. Well, that's what I'm trying to paint in a new painting. It has George seated at a bar, with the one door boarded over and a chaotic lanscape outside the window behind him. I used a reference for the face, but quickly stopped looking at it. I think I need to work more on it, the colors some just a little too bright. I want the colors to be muddy, but right now something feels off. George should be bright, more colorful than the world he now inhabits. George will surely think he did truly have a wonderful life after a couple minutes in this world I've painted him in.