03/01/21 North Street—In Progress

 No apple yet, but it’ll be there. 

2/28/21 Forget Me Not—Final

 Added shadows + some other refinements.

2/27/21 Forget Me Not

 

2/26/21 Icon Accidental study continues…

 Worked today on jewelry and the apple hand, mostly. Added more mottling to the skin. Made background fully black. Image has 3 days snapshots here together with today’s being the rightmost. Maybe 75% done?

02/25/21 Inside Outside

I seem to be really drawn to this color right now, which is interesting because I spent a lot of my life with a very strong aversion to pink. But this crazy-strong ultra-watermelon is really doing something for me right now. When I was doing this, I was listening to an audiobook where the protagonists were really misunderstanding each other and feeling betrayed. No idea how that plays into what it is, but there you go.

02/23/21 Icon Accidental study continues

Not a lot of progress today, but some. Much more work than progress, really. But hair is fun. 

02/23/21 Icon Accidental study—In Progress

Does this look familiar? I’m giving it another go.  I saw this photo of @iconaccidental (Instagram) back in the summer and thought, "I've SO got to turn that orange into an apple!" I did one stab at it back then and it was OK but I intend to keep doing them until I finally am able to do an analog painting (no "undo button") of this without gridding it out and absolutely copying the photo. 

For this try, I'm still tracing the outlines of shapes and recoloring things myself, checking against the photo and correcting as I go. I'd say I'm maybe 50% done now. Definitely more to do with the hair, jewelry, skin texture, coloring, etc. Pretty much everything. Gah! People are worse than waves!

2/23/21 Quick basement painting

 My view from the couch.