"Drax?" you ask, "Painting on a non-skin object? What on earth would you make pictures on instead of skin???"

"Ahh," I reply with a knowing smile, "Paper."

I used to do that a lot, you know. In fact, I tried only last fall to re-interpret some of my henna designs as watercolors, but I was disappointed with the result and sulked in the corner of my studio until spring. The finished product just wasn't quite what I was imagining. I have no idea WHAT I was imagining, but I was certainly it wasn't THAT. . .

Then along comes my brilliant friend Bob at the MoorArts Show two weeks ago, to whom I whine about my less-that-special images. Bob scratches his head, shrugs, and says "You just didn't pick the right medium. Why don't you do them as block prints instead? It would probably make more sense."

Block prints? BLOCK PRINTS...???

And there it was- the answer I'd been seeking for a year! I was so excited I wanted to get started in the car on the way home.

To be continued. . .