We sometimes have to remind ourselves how long it took the Impressionists to be accepted. I don't know if people liked what they were told to like back when the first Impressionists where looking for acceptance, I just feel that today people seem as though they download their opinions.

But Tony and I have a distinct advantage in terms of our ability to influence people. We reach between 10,000 and 20,000 people a week between all our web-sites. People from all over the world. I only reach probably less than 1500 people week but them I have only been blogging for less than 2 years. People find me mostly through Google searches and when Tony points to me from his posts. My point is unlike the Impressionists, we are able to reach a wide audience without waiting for some jury to deem us worthy.

So today I thought I would post several images in a row so you can see how Tony's work evolves. For some seeing something very different, something they don't understand makes them tend to back away from it. I'm tying to influence those people by giving them some understanding of what they are looking at and how it was created. This has always worked when I am standing next to someone and they are looking at one of Tony's prints.

Today we are going to look at the evolution of a work that started as a photograph, taken in a little French bistro on 23rd Street and Park Ave in New York City. When we lived there we got out of our tiny house as often as possible. We love France and French food and we ate in many of the French restaurants in the city. If they served steak tartare we were sure to eat there. Tony loves it. Now that we live in the country and enjoy the peace and quiet and our incredibly beautiful surroundings, we make it at home. (A little secret - Tony is a great cook.)