Robot Lunch

I don't know. Some days even I don't understand my muse.

6"x6" canvas (not counting protruding plasticware)

I started this back at the beginning of the year at the same time as "Broken". Here's the original mention of it in my Valentine's Day post:

"I just started two new paintings in the last two days. One is on the smallest canvas I have and it is fairly whimsical. The other is on the largest canvas I have and it's angry. Why couldn't my muse have gone the other way?"

The odd bit is that it kind of did go the other way in the end. "Broken" -- I think the largest canvas I've done -- was completed in months and was quite fun to paint. This tiny little thing that I originally described as the "whimsical" one? Took all year and went a little odd at the end. (I'm sure it says too much about my state of mind this year that both paintings are "bleeding".)

Eclipse

This was a small commission that I banged out over the weekend for a coworker. (I know, I know. How many times have I sworn I'm not doing any more commissions for friends? I still hate them and I still haven't learned to say no or even negotiate a fee upfront.) There was a deadline on this as she plans to give it to a friend as a birthday gift and that immediately set the media as watercolor as I am constitutionally incapable of completing an acrylic painting in a reasonable amount of time. I love my acrylics, but can't stop messing with the layers. With watercolor, there is a point where you are just done whether you want to be or not and even if the impulse is there to "Just tweak this one little bit," it doesn't work and I just have to keep my hands off of it.

So, as something I did with only a couple of days to think about and one day to work on, it's not bad. I'm not thrilled with it, but I'm never thrilled with the commissions as they are always about capturing someone else's vision rather than my own. (Tomorrow is the dreaded moment when I hand it over and find out if it is even close to what she was hoping for.)

UPDATE: As usual, I stressed for nothing. She seemed quite pleased with it.