Progress has been sluggardly through the winter, but there have been a few postable things. [spell check doesn't like sluggardly- the pedantic fools]

a Hipbone Studio:

a Wetcanvas portrait challenge. This was yesterday -I'm not so sure about the boys eyes/nose:

A trip last fall to Beacon Rock yielded a bunch of washed out, contrasty photos, but I did a digital study of one that may go somewhere:

a Google source photo that will be a gifter at Christmas

and a bevy of head studies: