so much unfinished work.

I have four unfinished painting sitting in my living room.
If I could finish just two of them this weekend I would be soo happy.
I was sick all of last weekend and today I hoped I'd be able to work,
but I used up all my energy getting up, making breakfast, and taking a shower then I had to go strait back to bed.
I woke up an hour ago and decided that I might just have enough energy to write a blog post.

This is a detail shoot of one of those unfinished paintings taunting me from the other side of the room.
This is the only part of the painting I am happy with.

This is the first painting I've use a male and femal model for.
My female model, Jenn, flows onto the wood like she was made for it.
That's her hand there looking fantastic, and just like I wanted it to.

However it has been a pitched battle trying to get Kevin's likeness to stick to the wood grain. That's his neck there looking nice and fluid, the rest of him is... not looking right yet.

But this is all probubly because I've painted Jenn more than I've painted myself and I've never painted Kevin before. I am also really rusty at painting men.

To make maters even worse for myself I thought "wouldn't it look great if I put a frame of ivy leaves around them." not realizing that if you're going to paint ivy it's suddenly not just a portrait of a boy and a girl, it's a portrait of a boy and a girl and 200 fucking leaves! every one of them needing special attention.

It was in the middle of painting all those leaves that I realized I was sick.
What is really frustrating is the realization that this illness means I probably won't finish this piece on time for the competition that I was painting it for.