Tackling the porch and the glider, and whatever bits of driveway and underbrush show through. As I darken the foreground and add texture and "age", this will hopefully come into focus. Maintaining the overall tonal values is key to making it all look "real". This will be done sometime this long weekend. I already have a FEDEX box ready to send it off to Virginia to be photographed. This weekend I will work on the interior illustrations, beginning with the endpapers. The signature sheet illustration, with the all-important Elmo, was done a few weeks ago and delivered to the publisher so they could get that project going. I am really looking forward to drawing a portrait of Brian's dog Steve, a meta-illustration for a meta-novel.