Today's colour palette is brought to you by the creamsicle -  and boy, did I ever have a hankerin' for one!  This week's challenge has been in mixing new colours and precisely re-mixing previous colours for touch-ups.  It has been very rewarding to fill in those final empty spaces on the top half - almost there!  I think I should have bought shares in painters tape before I began, though.  The taping process has been time consuming but it's worth it to get the results I desire.  

Make a trip down to the gallery at MacDonald Island tomorrow night to watch me tackle the rest of Foxy Loxy's knobbly head and the method behind all this taping madness! There will be a number of us at work as well as an exhibition of finished foxes in the gallery.  You will find the opening in the Community Gallery - the hallway just off the fitness centre upstairs.  The artists at work will be in the Syne Room, the last room in the hallway.  Looking forward to seeing you there!

I painted the inside of a fox's nostril today.  True story.

The adventures with tape continue and I can finally see the end of stage one coming around the corner. Taping takes nearly as much time as painting - it's like a puzzle and as long as I stick to the plan, each piece falls into place.  I had a bit of a marathon session today, which I've been doing my best to avoid.  As I contorted my body into all sorts of unnatural angles and held it there for a while, I thought to myself, "This is why I workout - so I can paint." Today I created a system to help me remember all my colour mixing for when I have to remix and touch-up, as well as decided on a three colour maximum for reusing tape before it gets too difficult to discern where the lines are. 

Plus, I got a thumbs up from a cute little passerby, so my approval rating looks good in the 3-5 age category.  A thumbs up and a nostril full of paint (the fox's not mine) - pretty good day, I'd say.