Mondays are for painting and snuggling a fat cat!

Monday of last week saw the beginning of a triptych. I've been wanting to do one for awhile. Okay, years. For reasons unknown I've never gotten around to it. I'm 'round to it now. Three panels of 1.5" gallery wrapped canvas, 10" x 30" each. Working in acrylic again on this one. Here's the start ...

Base coating of soft white, aqua, blue ...

Building up the aqua with glazes of deep green umber and a touch of burnt carmine ...

More aqua glazing, more green with a hint of black ...

Added some bright blue between the aqua and green, tamped in some moss green with a sponge on the green to look like, well, moss ...

Mix of black, greens, aqua, and a midge of a pastel shade of the aqua to make a tree branch and twigs ...

Hopefully this evening I'll get the blossoms painted. This is a rendition of a cherry tree, but my blossoms will be varying shades of pale peach, apricot, orange, terra cotta and burnt sienna instead of the traditional shades of pink. I want the complementary color play of "orange" against "blue". I think it will really make the blossoms pop and give the triptych depth and dimension.

This is my assistant, Tuck Butt Martinez ...

The husband caught me and the fur-boy snuggling at the computer and snapped the photos. Tuck loves to rub the top of his head against my head. He's a strange, but sweet fat cat.

Namaste, y'all ...