It was hard to find the time today, so by the time I started painting it was like 9 pm. I am proud that I finished something this complex in just a couple of hours.
Tonight I worked from a photograph, and that seemed to help me a lot. I don't think the colors are adequately displayed in the photo, but I made it very colorful. Lots of yellow, purple, black and green. Even a few dots of red. I used ultramarine blue in the cow a little bit and that added a great deal. I think the blue in his face drew your focus to it more.
I keep wanting to go back and do more to it. When do you know it's finished?
It was really hard for me to mix the colors at night. There is just something about natural light that helps you "see" color. OMG, I'm just itching to get back to it and do more. I am going to go to bed and stop though because the idea here is not to get a masterpiece in these 30 days, it's just to gain confidence and wake up my creativity.
You know children tell the truth, and my son's friend said it wasn't very good. That's the second one of his friends who has said that. Perhaps I should start listening to them? ... Nahhh... I'm having too much fun.
