Happy Old Soul

Happy Old Soul, oil on Ampersand gessobord, 5x7 inches

I went to a wonderful artist's lecture by Ying Kit Chan last night, the chairman of the Art Department at University of Louisville.  He was presenting a new body of work that has taken him to China, the Gulf of Mexico (due to the oil disaster of '10) and back to Louisville.  His show contains themes of sustainability, anthropological concepts, Buddhist ideas amongst many. It was a very thoughtful body of work.  I had come in contact with the work of Ying Kit when I was taking post-bacaulareate painting classes at U of L about 25 years ago. Although I never took his classes I was very familiar with his work at the time, and it had a profound  influence on my drawings.  
This painting coincidently reminds me of my work  I was doing at the time, in my painting class. So my universes just re-collided in a happy sort of way :-).  The building itself has been meticulously maintained during it's life and looked very handsome with the setting sun giving it a hint of pastel color on the day it posed for me.