This week the big painting is this, because I will not let peonies beat me. And I think that I will not do as I was previous advised to: to think of the flower as a sphere — at the start, anyway. I’ll make it more spherical after it’s done instead of at the start.
… and this is the current state. It makes sense to me.
The small glazing project went from this:
… to this:
I don’t hate it. It needs a white wash on top … maybe? It’s darker than the original but maybe I like that.
2 responses to “Weekly Paint Progress: 12/17”
I think it making sense to you is probably key to it “working” in the long run! Hooray!
(that said, you can also back out of the Big Boss Battle in the last castle of the video game, so you can go out and increase your levels and find new weapons to wallop that critter. It’s not giving up on them, but gaining more experience and confidence and “eye” and such, and *then* you can wallop those peonies!)
KC – interesting analogy!