Blood will Flow

Started painting my Cambridge cow this morning. It wasn't too bad in terms of temperature out in the garage, I wore thermals and fleeces and survived just fine, but it's pretty dirty in there, and I kept getting bits of dust and tiny fragments of dead leaves stuck on the wet paint because I had to work with the garage door open for the light. So that's a nuisance and I don't know what I can do about it. I hadn't noticed it being a problem last time I used their garage for the bee and the giraffe - maybe it's because I'm using lighter colours at the moment, for this base coat.
I was going to do a time lapse series but realised my camera battery was too low, so just took a couple of pics.( Read more... )

It is my friend Angela's birthday today and she has a thing about backs - so I drew this for her.
Teaser

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