This is actually Day 3. The first two days were so HIDEOUS I couldn’t bring myself to post them. Day One — I got out a mirror to work from, as I hate working from photos. Of course it’s hard. I’d look, then turn to try and draw in what I saw, then look back — and it never seemed like I could arrive in the same, exact spot.
I woke up the next morning, realizing it’d been a mistake to try to draw my sunglasses in so soon. Better to just try to get my face first, then figure out the sunglasses later. So I wiped much of it off….
So the next day I sat in front of the mirror, trying to get my face right. I was just trying to get features in place — the color would come later. By the end of the day I realized there was another giant problem: the cowboy hat. Every time I’d look in the mirror, turn to work on the canvas, then look back — things would be at a slightly different angle. Eeeeeeeek!
So this morning I woke up with a solution: put the hat on a Buddha statue and work from that! Yeah. Nothing like a good night’s sleep to help a person come up with good ideas!
Oh — and my hand. Another huge challenge. But if you know me by now, I’m not one to back away from a good challenge. And those braids……!
