Bobble-eye Bob the green frog.

I made good progress with the frog exercise today.  I finished around 6pm and can't help but think I am taking far too long to complete these exercises.  As I become more proficient at colour mixing I'll no doubt be much faster but in the meantime.....plod, plod, plod.  I also need to set an alarm for myself when doing art as I tend to lose track of time. I stopped for lunch today at just after 2 so I'd gone past my usual meal time by around 2 hours.  An alarm would also make me get up and move around as I am quite sore and tired by the end of a day of art.  Time for show and tell. 

Here is the almost completed frog done in the hard-edge semi abstract style.  I probably need to do another coat and I'll be done.

I then took some time to play around with developing a colour swatch for Cleo the owl.  Her photograph is peeking out at the left of the image and a rudimentary swatch shows colours I've developed for her eyes, warm feather colours and the dark around her eyes.  To help draw attention to her eyes I've blued the black by adding ultramarine blue.  The blue and orange together intensify each other and will help draw the eye. I've also had a play with colours for the background and have come up with a red-purple or a dark blue-gray.  I thing the blue-gray will be the best choice.

 

I wasn't chained to the table all day.  It was very humid and  34.7degrees celcius, so when I finally broke for lunch I headed out to dip in the pool first.  This is what I found....

The girls in the pool with Jeff.  It's a tough life don't you think?  They actually stayed like this for quite awhile before getting fidgety and wanting to move.