This was Pillar Day. Just do it. Figure it out and paint the thing.
Hmmmm, what is wrong with this road and these rocks? Why do they look like a pile of rocks rather than cobblestones?
Let’s figure this out. . . procrastinating? Me? Why do you ask? This HAS to be figured out sooner or later. Sooner is better than later, isn’t it?
This doesn’t appear to be any better. Guess I’ll ignore this for awhile and just paint.
Why is it that every single time I do a mural that I have to learn all over again? It must be because there is too much time between murals and then I forget.
The big lesson is to block things in. Fill the giant spaces with color, get the shapes and the color approximate, and then do the detail later.
This isn’t too much to do. I can do this. Not sure about that pillar. Finally I decided to just paint the sides a solid color and deal with the face of it later. (We’ll worry about that later, Scarlett.)
There. blocked in. Sides painted. Ready for the next day’s painting session when perhaps I’ll have a stroke of brilliance about the pillar and the pile of rocks.
Yep, this is going to work. (Keep talking positively to yourself and pretty soon it will be true.)
This is how it looks when facing the pillar straight on. Maybe I can blend it into the wall beyond on the left.
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