Michael R. Barrick

Threw a coat of lacquer on it. This isn't the final "good" photo yet. I have an idea for framing this that I'll do before I do the proper documentation. I plan to lean into the "grocery-bagness" with some influence from how I saw some genuine Byzantine era icons displayed in Thessaloniki in the Museum of Byzantine Culture and in Rhodes in the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes. Maybe I should get around to posting more of the pictures from Greece...

Caught an ambitious spider starting an orb web on my easel. I put it outside.

My fortune cookie thinks the end justifies the means

Almost done with this. I realised in the course of this that the way I was working with the reference photos was sabotaging how I was seeing things and I came up with a better way to look at the reference. But that's for the next study.

Bonus game: spot the cat.

Remember gothsintrees.com?

Working on the glove now. I knew this was going to be the hardest part when I started. You really have to turn off that rational part that thinks "fingers" when they are foreshortened like this.

My spooky balcony.

The Beasty she's holding has emerged as a fox this morning.

The long rat in her hand got his shadow this morning. Six weeks of winter?

I'm happy enough with the face at the moment to move on to the remaining details to the right, the stole and the glove. I wonder if you can spot what changed on the face from yesterday?