This is a "favorite" snapshot from a pal's New Orleans cancer recovery celebration parade. I love this and I think I can make a fun action portrait from it. Lots of energy, smiles, and music in every stroke. The challenge is that I am really into the production of a neat PBS docu-music TV special right now and all my creative energies are locked into that project until January! But sometimes painting really frees up my creative "juices" and allows me to bring all kinds of new energy to every creative project I am into at that moment. We'll see.