I continued to work on the tryptych of Betsy and my cousins. In a critique I was asked how I would feel painting over part of the paintings to suggest the faded parts of my memory of them. I took the paintings back to my studio. I sat and looked at them for a long time, then took a deep breath and painted over parts of the cousins. As suggested I kept things like the trycycle in sharper detail, since, like the red boots, I did remember some details from back then,

My friend Tracey stopped by to see the studio and really liked my ghosting back of the details. It did suggest those forgotten bits of memory of those days in the 1950s she thought. Below you can see how areas still show remembered details and parts fade away.