I say the zebra is done. Last week it was this:
… Now it is this (some of the white molding is stronger)
… when it was originally this:
Next week my small project will be something from Teach Yourself to Oil Paint. I said I was going to have an easy project that doesn’t try to stretch my skills and I mean it. Sometimes I go back and play Leaving On a Jet Plane on my guitar. This will be the painting equivalent.
I did something new with the lamp. I didn’t look at what I was trying to paint, I just painted what I thought should be there. This was last week:
.. and this week I added purple shadows to the background and some wood grain to the table:
Next week I will be roughing in the flowers, and then the fun will begin with the details.
2 responses to “Weekly Paint Progress: 2/27”
Congrats on making some progress you’re happy with! I will be really interested to find out whether “paint what you *see*” or “paint what you think should be there” wins out eventually, or if you figure out an interesting hybrid approach like “paint what you see for the rough-ins, then paint what you think should be there from then on” or something like that.
(The picky copyeditor in me should probably shut up. But the picky copyeditor in me notes that the zebra’s mane isn’t as solid-stripy as the original; I only noticed this, however, due to lots of prior zebra studying, and also it does not matter beans. In any event, your final zebra painting is looking really, really good, especially against the original you were working off of.)
KC – I agree about the mane, but I’ve had enough of the zebra. It goes on the list of things that still need tweaks.