Sunflower

For once, I’m painting from a reference photo of my own! My first attempt was garbage, as you can see below, because my values were completely off relative to the photo on the right. You can barely see that I actually have two shades of yellow for the petals in the painted version.

So, I tried again a few days later, just painting over the old version. And this is the comparison between the old painting and the new. Still not happy with it, but it looks better from a distance, lol!

Just for grins, here’s the comparison between my photo and the new painting.

Snow! — and Arctic Chill

It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit this morning — I believe that is a record for today (January 15th). AND a light dusting of snow. D/FW Airport — about 10 miles to the west — got over an inch, due to lake effect snow from lakes north of the airport. I associate lake effect snow more with Buffalo than Dallas, but there ya go. First time for everything.

We’re still about 48 hours from temperatures getting above freezing. It’s a good day to paint!