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Good morning people, and that is actually a greeting, not describing people in the morning that behave appropriately.

First I want to thank you for all your great ideas. I'm loving them. When you submit an idea though, I want you to think of the theme, and if your idea is painted and you win a free print, will it be something others will want to hang on their wall all year long? And think also, if other people will want it hanging on their wall all year long if they want to buy a print. I'm mentioning this because I'm getting a lot of very seasonal themes here and as a general rule I don't paint seasonal paintings. And as much as I'd love to paint a picture of you and your baby, that's more of a commisionable request and not a generalized idea for my 52 week challenge. I realize that I painted a very seasonal painting when I put a snowman and mittens in my first painting, but even I don't want all those kinds of paintings on my wall all year long.

Let me give you an example of a painting my friend Julie Fillo did. I know I keep mentioning her but she really was a huge inspiration to me in this whole idea. But she had the idea of a housedress. So she painted a girl, in a dress but the dress was actually a house with a door, windows and I think the little girl had a chimney sticking out of her head.

Also I want to mention, that currently I'm not able to accept commissions. I may open that door in the near future but right now I've got other commitments I'm working on.

I know I probably wasn't specific enough when I first threw all my requests out there and I'm sorry if I'm hurting anyones feelings here. The whole idea here is to spark creative ideas from you and also to spark mine as well and to make me stretch and grow as an artist and not be so stuck in my box of "girls".

I also want to mention that this week I'm going to be painting something that I saw that speaks to me. I'm not saying what that is right now but at the end of the week, it will be reveled. There will also be a give away and I'll tell you what you have to do to enter to win a free print.

Again, thanks for all the great ideas. Keep them coming but again, ask yourself, is it something you want on your walls all year long.

Have a great day!!!