More work accomplished

Not the past week but rather the one before I was able to spend a good amount of time working on this painting. I am really excited by where it is going. After a long week at work I feel derailed. And the whole diptych seems a little daunting - really ambitious. What the heck am I thinking?...But I'll muster the wherewithal to continue plugging along soon I am sure. I like the composition. I will be enlarging the roadrunner, keeping the tribble-cactus, painting out the back leg of the chair that descends to the ground under Tyler's right hand (because everyone thinks it's a cigar), and working more on Tyler's face. The photograph I am working from actually doesn't provide enough detail around Tyler's ear and neck. Maybe I'll have to photograph him again. Today I stretched the large canvas for the painting I am beginning of Memphis and Reagan. I really don't have anywhere in the house to store it...

Here is a picture of the progress I have made on the painting of Tyler. It is not the entire composition - the left and right sides are cropped out. I am getting some more opaque layers of paint down on the canvas. And I have covered the entire area with color. I am working out the composition in the foreground still. Earlier I added a small barrel cactus; but because it more closely resembles a green tribble in the bottom right hand corner, I will be changing it.