Day 14 - Another Day - Another Grandchild

Day 14 - Ren - The Stance

Ren is three and this was his first year playing tee ball.

He loooovvveeesss baseball.

I was watching him one day, and I tossed so he could hit for over an hour.  He wouldn't have quit then,but Grammy got tired.

I took this photo at the one game I was able to attend this summer.  It was only the hottest day of the summer. 

I don't know how those little guys, not to mention their coaches stood it.  I was under a chair with a canopy guzzling water like no tomorrow, and I thought I was going to pass out.

Back to the painting -

I had such a hard day yesterday, I woke up at 4 a.m. and decided to get up and get at it.  

For whatever reason, I didn't struggle quite as badly today as I did yesterday.  I even managed to work on Josh's nose from yesterday and it does look better.  Made a tiny stroke to make it rounder and it's amazing what that tiny stroke did.  That's one of the amazing things about painting.  Sometimes it really is just a tiny adjustment that takes it from eh to Ahhh.

I tried to keep the face very simple because it is so small and not to screw it up.  I think it worked out good.  I'm trying not to paint beyond myself in this challenge, but to learn about figure painting.  What makes it work and what is problematic.

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I'm mailing out one today,

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