I changed my mind – I don’t like a challenge after all. Nope. Don’t want to do this hard stuff. I’m an idiot for saying I’d try. I want my commissions to be easy, just flow from the brushes, paint themselves while I sing to the radio. This Put-My-Parents-In-The-Painting may cause me to stab myself with my paintbrush handles.
The truth is that I’ve spent hours upon hours upon hours tinkering with The Parents. This is the best I can do. What if Mr. Put-My-Parents-etc doesn’t like it?
No biggie – I can just paint it out. Erase hours upon hours upon hours of work. File it away in my mind under “You Knew Better” or “Learning the Hard Way Again” or “Stupidity Rerun”.
Then, Mr. Put-My-Parents can have a nice painting of the house.
That’d work, right?
I need to go lie down now. Maybe with chocolate and knitting. (That will keep my thumb out of my mouth.)
See how small and blurry this photo is? WHAT was I thinking when I said I’d try it?? But now that i see the photo with the enlarged view of The Parents, I think I’ll do more work on Pa’s shirt. And the pants only look too bright on the monitor. They really aren’t. I think. Maybe. Dang.
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Ummm, I think you’re way too critical. The parents look wonderful! I think it looked just like the picture (except the purse was missing, but it looks better like that for a painting). You’re so talented it freaks me out sometimes.
Shannon, it freaks me out when I agree to do things that are too hard for me. The purse just looked like too much stuff and I was desperate to simplify. They are each holding something dark in their hands – can’t tell what it is any more than I can tell what their features look like!
Thank you, Diane. This a.m. I looked at it again and it looks better in real life than in the photo. I did tone down the pants but was scared to touch the vague blurry faces!
… the parents look fabulous to me … but what do I know … 🙂
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