Experiment

Somewhere along the line, within the last year, I acquired a free jar of Golden gloss soft gel medium.  Never used it before and thought "what the heck"...   So I've just finished this canvas (and have a companion piece started).  I think it's obvious from the photo where the texture is in the painting.
"Outreach" (16"  20")

Special Request

My husband doesn't have many photos from when he was a child.  One that we do have is this small black and white:

He asked me to paint a colored version from his memory of the colors.  This is acrylic on canvas - 12"X16".  "Patches" (circa 1950)