#211 thru #214 Four more Cuties: 2 Dogs, a Cat and a Seal 9/30/19

End of the month, and I wanted to be a bit more "on track" for my goal of 300 paintings in the year.  I did a bit of catch up this month, but there is still more to go!  I should be at 225 so I'm still behind by 11 paintings.  Let's hope October goes well!  Tonight I started with the puppy and he came together very quick.  I started with the pink tongue, then did the pink background, the the rest of the dog.  So I figured the adult dog would move along similarly.  It did not.  I kept messing with his fur, trying to get the marbled colors right.  Maybe I should have also started him with his tongue!  For a while he looked flat, like you'd see in a coloring book, then finally out he popped.  I can't quite put my finger on what I did that changed his look so dramatically.  With the dogs behind me I moved on to the seal.  He seemed like he'd be easy, 50 shades of gray.  I think I ended up with 50 layers of gray.  If he looks 3-D it might be because he's puffed out with so much paint!  And the face just looked scary.  I played with the eyes, and the nose, and the mouth, and when a friendly face finally arrived I stopped painting.  Thought I should go to bed at this point, but I decided to put my nose to the grindstone and whip out the cat.  I've done plenty of cats, and this one should be easy enough.  Not.  It was his chin that kept me up too late.  I changed the edges on his chin and mouth 6 times before exhaustion finally set in and I had to go to bed.  I may play with it one more time tomorrow.  And now that I see it here, I'm going to play with his right eye too.