DJ Geribo

For a couple of weeks after I received my new David Sorg easel, a 30x40 canvas sat on the easel untouched, still so pure and white. I was so involved in finishing up my new website that I couldn't get to it. But now, it has paint on it! Yeah! And as you can see, it is starting to look like the Bengal Tiger. Surprising to me was how unintimidating the size was. Since I paint a lot of 2"x2", 3"x4", and 5"x7" sizes, I thought for sure that the 30"x40" size would overwhelm me. But it doesn't at all, as a matter of fact, I feel like I could paint bigger! That's a relief since I bought a box of 6 - 30x40 canvases and have 5 more to paint.
 
Although I have the general layout in place, I brought my husband up to my studio to check out spatial relations - he's very good at picking up things like, the eye is right over the bend in the right front leg and in line with the corner of the right ear. I usually see it, too, but sometimes he picks up something that I missed.

I expect to make a lot of progress on it this coming week, but you know oils, you have to give the painting time in between sessions to dry a bit before you can add more paint.