Back at the painting

Back at the painting, and doing what I would say is the best bit of painting I've ever done in my entire EVER! I started a new oil painting for the June group show, and it's just been going swimmingly - if a bit slow. Swimming upstream, I guess.

One thing, or THE thing, that's making it hard is that I first painted a background colour over the entire canvas (a typical start), but I am trying to allow that colour to show for all my mid-tones. Which means I am only adding the darkest darks and the lights. So it's difficult to not touch the mid-tones. Or to get the darks/lights to blend with the pre-established mid-tone naturally. If that makes sense.

I think I'd better than the Universe for this little gift and keep working hard to save it, cuz by rights, I SHOULD be totally sucking, given the amount I didn't work over the past month.

Something I stmbled upon while listening to SFU pipe band videos on YouTube. w00t! This guy's piping is so good it's unbelievable: