My interest in people as individuals has a great deal to do with my paintings  as each person who sees my paintings usually responds particularly to one of them  which is fascinating to me  And once in a while someone comes along who doesn t see them at all  which is fascinating too  and a challenge       I tend to paint pictures that I would want to live with  After all I spend a lot of time working on a painting so it comes natural to paint what I like       br     I paint in oils and alkyds  sometimes over acrylic  I use canvas or hardboard as the surface  I experiment with different methods pretty freely  I work on many paintings concurrently  putting one aside when I just need to use a totally different color for awhile  or when I haven t decided what to do next  or don t have time just then to do it  Then an hour or days or even years later I pick it up again       The dragon paintings are illustrations for a book by Daniel O Connor   You can see more about this at http   dragonmoonrising com       images ©copyright Linda Nelson 3581