A closer look at this painting is now available in the "Tender Paint" category. 

  One more go ought to do it- bring up some detail but not much more. 

I saw a portrait that is part of the Hispanic Society of America Show currently at the Chrysler Museum that helped me place a few of the missing puzzle pieces in my learning process.  It was painted on a mahogany panel, and only part of the work had paint layers that were wholly built up- some of the panel was exposed, other parts stained.  The color of the panel functioned as an underpaint.  Now- there are always stray pieces of wood around my home, to include some fine mahogany plywood, and I decided that I wanted to figure out about painting on it so J. cut it into three pieces for me, two small and one larger ones, and off I went.  The large panel is being dedicated to a figure, but the first of the small ones invited the painting of Tripper to come.  Finally. I've tried to make sense of that portrait in waiting for quite some time- didn't know until last week that it wanted to be on mahogany.  Go figure.