Weekly Paint Progress: 7/31/2025

This week the Dog Bank ’25 plummeted from this:

… to this.

YES that is awful. Here’s what happened.

I discovered too late I didn’t have the size canvas I wanted, so I took a painted canvas and put gesso over it, which is like Elmer’s glue that covers up the old paint.

Somehow, this time it was too thin to cover completely yet too thick to cover smoothly. So now there’s a stripey texture, plus you can see Goldie the Cat: Cartoon Version through the gesso if you take the canvas and twist it one-fourth counter-clockwise.

I might leave the pedestal too wide (it should end under his rear) because otherwise it’s very off-center. But if I leave it the perspective is alllllll wrong.

Usually I love the first painting steps, because it’s all potential at that point. This time there’s no potential.

Subtitle this one Can This Painting Be Saved?