I have been creatively drained for weeks. Work is literally sucking the life out of me so that when I come home, I just don't want to do anything. Not really drawing anything new and while I feel badly about that, I don't have the flicker of energy to do anything about it. However, when in Boston last, I was sitting with Max in Harvard Square at his favorite place and noticed that the lighting in the afternoon was very different from the overcast photo I took years ago as reference for this image. While I love cloudy, rainy weather and the subtler colors of that, this image is supposed to be him. So I decided to see what it would look like using more of the colors from the new photo. And I think it really pops. Closer to fauvism than anything, it really pops and is a better direction. There are a couple other places I took photos of that I want to do paintings from. Landscapes are so much more troublesome than portraits for me but I also think that they might work really well with my limited approach. We'll see. Just hope I can manage to drag myself up out of this hole. The holidays are coming and I really hate them. They suck energy even worse. I can't see any relief until late January at this point and that is daunting and sad.