Today’s Studio Closeup is a work currently in progress. This will look completely different when it’s done, I just don’t know how yet and that’s the greatest worst place to be when you’re in the middle of it all. The excitement of the possibilities and the dread that you’re going to ruin it somehow. I haven’t touched this piece for quite a while and I think that’s because while painting it, it stirred up some things I didn’t even know were "things" for me so I had to sit with all of it for awhile. I've been enjoying working on it today and that was a nice feeling that I am grateful for. The dioramas are in plastic bags because I’ve already learned the hard way that no matter how careful you are, you will drip paint inside your dioramas.