So this is the previous…
This is the progress …
And this is the goal.
So close. Birds 1 and 2 have too much contrast and the shadow under 1 is too long. I don’t know how that happened. But if I fix that then it’ll be done. If it were a watercolor I could take just Bird 3 and the parts of the two pitchers directly above him and I’d be completely pleased.
Or maybe I leave this as is and then in three years I come back and really finish it. That’s another option.
3 responses to “Weekly Paint Progress: 3/5/2026”
I think I shall take one more pass for the two birds.
(with a watercolor you can cut the thing up but with an oil painting it needs to keep its canvas or it’ll warp? or am I misunderstanding?)
(in any event: good progress, hope the birds behave well for you!)
KC- watercolors are painted on absorbent paper thin enough to cut with scissors, and the paint is thin. Oil paintings are on a canvas of .. well canvas, stretched across a wood frame, and to cut it you’d have to dismantle the frame — for scissors, unless you used a box cutter. Even then, the paint itself hardens, and I use many layers (way too many layers) only slightly diluted with oil.