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Finally, I couldn’t resist going to color! It just popped right out. I covered the whole canvas in about two hours. This is just the first layer, I still have a lot of work to do — but this is the fun part! Okay, it’s all fun.

Oh, and I have a title: “Apotheosis 2009″. Do [...]

This is the last layer in greys and blacks — now that all the shapes main figures (including kitties) are blocked in, I can add color and detail. The finished surface is gradually forming in my visual mind. I can’t wait to start painting in color.

Finally, a new progress photo — my work on the self-portrait part of the painting was stalled when one of our kitties ran away. I couldn’t bear to paint while I was worrying about him. After nine days, I finally found him underneath a neighbor’s house, starving and scared. His tail was broken (probably an [...]