This post is still going.  That's really cool and probably a tribute to your brush work Richard.

After looking at this again, seeing a closer picture of you and that self portrait you posted as a prelude to your failed hiatus from this forum...  I'm calling you out.  That's you sitting at the table, isn't it?  8^)

Thanks Lung for giving me the opportunity to discus van Gogh again in this post.  I think his was more of an experiment in color than to confine his brush to the stringency of reproducing commonly agree upon sight.  There were a lot of rules back then that the Impressionist broke and paved the road for guys like van Gogh.

I like to equate it to music.  You can hear a very simplistic song that only has a few chords, vocals out of key, whatever.  And this song still makes you smile.  It's in your head.  Technically the tune is sub-par, but it's still a good song.

In a letter to Theo, he wrote;