Deadlines!!

I realized the other day that there is a Variety Show coming up in May; that isn't very far in the future. That Variety Show would be a most excellent place for me to debut this painting I've been working on for Foooorreeeeeeever. Realizing that gives me a concrete deadline and that gives me lots of motivation to work! (i know.. gotta work on that motivation stuff)

I'm a little behind on my updates for this blog so here is the second-to-most-recent view of the painting:(and just to get an idea for scale, that pad of paper is 8x11)

Since then, I've been doing some research and I think I know what is needed to make the clouds look like clouds and not just blobs of swirling whiteness. Having just recently discovered this, yesterday I ran right out and got more paint ('cuz i was all out of white from the previous layer of clouds). And here is the most recent update on the painting:

It's still a work in progress.. I like that the gray has given shape and dimension to the clouds.... but it still needs a fair amount of tweaking. However, these being oils, I'm going to have to wait a little bit for them to dry just a tad before going back in and playing some more.

One of these days I'm going to have to name it.... maybe Connection..