Thanks to the recent warm up yesterday, I finished the seventh painting in “The Adventures of Infinity and Negativa” series. The most challenging part of creating this painting was detailing the numbers. Although their bodies have slight errors in anatomical proportions, Infinity and Negativa have a variety of facial expressions and body positions. I didn’t even bother to consult the Word doc of the pictures that I assembled to sketch the body positions once I started painting.
As much as possible, I’m trying to simplify my routine and focus more on putting paint to canvas. With at least thirteen more canvases to go, I still optimistically believe that my painting skills will improve by virtue of practice. Moreover, since the paintings represent the works of the main character, Nuru, I don’t need to focus so much on the formality of improving my painting skills. In that respect, the paintings need to be incorporated into the narrative more.
Each painting represents the opening of a chapter, but I need to write the non-fantasy characters talking about Nuru’s paintings more. There are a few references, but as much work as I’m putting into this aspect of the book, I’ve got to make more of them–other than expanding my home gallery collection.