Good? I’ll take a picture of it in daylight.
Let me just say I love using my eyeballs.
My sprint finish was to Billy Corgan singing off the Airplane album. It freed me up and I added turquoise ontop of my black because I felt stubborn enough to describe what I saw. I thought, “If this is wrong, I don’t want to be right.”
If there’s one thing I’d like to change, it’s the white stuff where the crab’s abdomen is. I gotta do the unfun work and learn if it’s a hard shell or if it’s more like feathery crab meat.
I might submit early against my husband’s recommendation. I need to move on and paint Christmas presents: three dogs. Hopefully, this painting will rub off onto my next ones because I’m mostly inspired by competition these days.
The best response I got so far on this was, “Holy shit!”
Here is the picture I was given:
I flipped it, obviously, leveled the table, and zoomed in on my ipad to see better. The more I’d try, the more I’d see. I watched one of his teaching videos and he said something along the lines of, “If I like a stroke and it’s not exactly correct, I leave it.” So, I had fun trying that. In his requirements for the MK Challenge, Brush Strokes I believe was a category. I don’t really know what I’m doing, but I tried to use more paint. I might take some white off because I went a little crazy with it. There’s just huge chunks of white and not as much thickness of other colors, so it’s not as good as I can get it, but it is the best I’ve ever done so far.
Outdoor lighting
The white blob turned out to be not feather-like, but six thin plates of soft shell. I worked on it until my daughter Lana, who’s 5, said to stop and that it was too chunky.
Here’s what it looks like on my wall at Arts of Snohomish, a co-op gallery for 15 local artists.