Day 3

This was another two-dayer. That's me in a cafe in London, having my first English breakfast.

I know it's very unfinished, but man, my own face is freaking me out! In the actual photo I'm making this very intense stare and it's giving me the willies. I wouldn't be having this problem if I wasn't looking at the camera.

It's my "don't interrupt me for a photo when I'm eating" face.

Edit: Whoa, this looks completely different on a better monitor. For one, that bus is totally eye searing.

This thing again

OH I BET YOU THOUGHT I FORGOT. You thought so, didn't you? Oooooh, you can stuff it!



Actually I was working on this one for two nights. (I've never really used Painter before, and I was fighting it the whole way.) This is from a photo I took in Monet's Garden over in Giverny, since I was feeling guilty about painting other people's photos yesterday.

Remember how I complained about being horrible at plants? Well I'm still horrible! When I did the Kodkod, I said to myself "I'm gonna just paint a freaking tree tomorrow." And then I decided to paint Monet's Garden, which isn't so much a freaking tree as a wall of freaking trees.

It's a beautiful location though. http://giverny.org/gardens/

So here's a thing.

It occurred to me that I don't paint enough. I'm trying this thing someone suggested to me, which is finding a photo on Google Image Search, and then painting from it (also from life). I'm seeing how long I can stick to this, but I want to try to do this for the rest of April at the VERY least.

Tonight's result (click for full size, though it's small anyway):



The Kodkod is the smallest cat in the Americas, apparently. It's very cute. It had a (VERY CUTE) segment on Planet Earth where it ate moths. Watch and groan at David Attenborough's puns!



I think tomorrow's subject will be a tree... I'm not great at painting masses of leaves!