More more mockingbirds

I am taking very small steps with this piece as I am only able to work on it for a short while each morning. But this is the first week I have been able to show up and paint since I finished the piece of Memphis. I have either been too busy with applications or too busy with work. So "yea for painting!"...

Mockingbirds

I have begun articulating the pyracantha bush. This work is very slow going, and I have been spending a lot of time waiting tables. So there haven't been many uninterrupted afternoons of painting.

More work

It only took a few shifts at work to remember how much I like painting. I feel inspired by this piece again. I have put the pomegranates aside and after I got a good opaque layer of paint built up, I am ready to articulate the details. I had thought to put a crane in this piece, but it doesn't fit. It would cover up too much of the painting that already exists. Instead I think the crane will find a home in a future painting that I am planning.
There is still a lot of work to do. I am hoping that I could use some of my current pieces during a grad school interview, thus expanding my portfolio even further than the January 15th slide deadline allowed. Additionally there are so many ideas knocking around in my head right now, and I am anxious to produce it all. There is however only one speed in painting so I must be diligent.

Mas granadas

I have been refining the pomegranate painting. I suppose it may be a little hard to tell what I have changed since I haven't actually "covered" anymore of the canvas perse. But I built up a good layer of paint and continued to make increasingly specific observations of the tablecloth and fruits.

Grad school

I got the last of my applications in the mail today...


YEA!