KIC?

Thank you; I'm honored.

Wrong, I'm afraid. No initials at all. Thanks for the compliment, though.

Thanks: I did indeed play around with my photo references in various editing programs before I started painting. I'm still debating whether it's actually finished (I can't stand the lower left section but I'm not sure how to fix it and don't know that I care to) but the bulk of the work was completed in two months.

As to frames, the painting is actually nine 6"x9" smaller paintings which I scanned separately and stitched together digitally because I was not content with how it looked the first time I mounted it (also, it wouldn't fit in my scanner). I've been considering stretching thin panes of black matte board across the junctions of the nine when I do mount it, to cover my sloppy trim job and keep the corners down without resorting to glue.