Lots of painting today!

This first one is a painting that came from a random blob that i put on the page and then tried to make something from it. Its a helpful tip that i learned from trying to create random compositions for the forest paintings in 113B. It ended up becoming this Ocean like cove.  it was also a cool experiment with a really tall composition. Pretty fun! i want to try more with those dimensions.

This one was another one that i did today and it ended up being SUPER COOL! Originally i thought it was going to kind of hard to do this one because im not really sure how to paint fur or hair but i then i remembered that if i just squint and try to get the right shapes and edges it wont matter. I think it was also successful because i approached this with a differnt mindset. The entire time i never was thinking of this as painting a Lion or anything. I was painting the values and what i saw and that is what i think i need to take from this and apply it to everything else that i paint. It's someting John Clapp would always talk about but i dont think i ever really understood exactly what he was talking about til now i guess? lol