say it with me now...

are you seriously still working on that?!

david and i stayed up on new year's eve watching some silly shows, and i painted the animals on the ark.  then finally got the rainbow in, but made it too big, and the colors weren't quite right, so i repainted it.  don't worry--that red stripe on the top got covered up.

so...here it is, all the paint that i had planned on it and finished.  my mom asked me once when i knew a painting was done, or when it needed a little more work done on it.  here is a perfect example.  the painting below is what i had planned, with exception of adding black lines to make it look like a stain glass window.  but it just looked...off.  the grey sky was the color i wanted, but it just felt like a big, yawning, vortex of a black hole, sucking everything in.  it sat for a few days, until david and i stood back and looked at it together.  he said just what i felt, "the bottom has so much going on, and the top is sort of bare."  then i woke up the next morning, knowing what to do to fix the problem!  the water is so boisterous, i had to mirror the boisterous lines up above to help bring the viewer's eye back down--the clouds needed a little bit of help--and voila!

i thought i'd just go around everything with a black sharpie and lickety-split it'd be done.  but the sharpie wasn't working with the acrylic paint, so now i'm having to use paint to go around everything with a miniscule paint brush...and it's all i've been working on during nap time for the past 2-3 weeks.  today i decided to take a break and catch up on the blog.  i still have just over two-thirds to finish...hopefully i'll be posting a completed project within the next month!