Pet Painting

Well, the snow continued and the 9th annual Art in Our Park on Saturday had to be cancelled. sigh... I guess I will be very ready for next year and have time to work on a few new paintings.  In the meantime, I finished the above pet portrait for my niece.  It was a lot of fun doing this little 8x8 oil painting.  

The small painting was a nice break as I am trying to paint a large 36"x48" and am in the fear stage right now.  The fear stage is when it looks kind of good, you can see where the painting is headed but now I fear I will screw it up.  So I am avoiding it.  I think these smaller confidence boosting paintings help, maybe I will do some more today.