Back to oils, yeaa!

Not making any headway with new work, I realized how frustrated I was with acrylics.  So it's back to oils, and I feel so (so!) much better.  Here is a grisaille for a new painting, started today.  "Lorenzo and Silvana".  Photo from Cortona, Italy, 1985.  I always thought this would be a lovely painting... and now I actually paint!  (Hm, 1985, it was calligraphy that year, having tired of photography, and before I moved on to ceramics, etc...... )

Update:  Top pic shows progress, although that progress was a month ago or more!