I finally got around to finishing the rock.  This may actually be my first somewhat accurate painting of a specific rock…a portrait of sorts.  So, next time you’re hanging around Reservoir Park in Salt Lake and you come across a largish rock in the middle of the playground and think to yourself, “I’ve seen this before…this means something…this is important”, you either recognize my fine likeness of this geological specimen, or you’re having a ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ moment.

And now on to a much easier portrait: the young Icarus.  At least he’s somewhat symmetrical, and far less craggy.  I’m working a little rough at this point, especially on the hair, with the intention of pulling everything into better focus once all the flesh tones are in place.  I’m using the color string method I used for ‘Muse and Medium’ again, still trying to decide if I like it more or less than the under-painting-with-color-over-the-top method I used on ‘Deliberation’.  The one distinct advantage to this technique is that it allows me far more opportunities to break up a larger figure into pieces that can be finished in a reasonable workday.  Who knows, I may end up finding some hybrid of the two processes that works even better.

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