Today, I worked on shaping Skeepee's head. I think it looks better--it's more 3-D and less illustrative than the previous stage which was kind of cute. And, I realized that her body comes up higher next to her ear, so that gave her more weight. Her whiskers are drawn at the wrong angle,they need to be parallel with the bottom of the canvas so that she's resting on a cushion.

I used a medium matte glaze today which is new for me. I don't know if the paint + medium will run the way it does with water washes, so I'll be experimenting with that. Today, I put Titanium white and medium over much of the fabric. I read that I should use Zinc white instead.

I don't usually work one area of the painting a time, either, but for some reason, I felt I needed to get the cat right first. Many painters start with the whole background and then lay color all over the canvas, but some painters seems to work from the top down. If this were a landscape, then it would be sky, mountains, meadow, and grass.


The clock is ticking. Gotta finish this before school starts.