My first painting is DONE! Rejoice, all the world! I have conquered the evil tie!

If you don’t know about the tie, let me introduce you. Beloved reader, meet the evil tie (on the left):

Evil tie, meet the beloved Reader.

Now, since this is my first painting, I am still learning and i can’t make ties bend. Much less ones with such crazy fading and cross hatching. The tie was a bad idea to include in my first painting. Now that I think about it, everything else in that painting sucked. Way to much detail and words and different colors.

That’s why I chose this as my next still life:

I hope it will be easier.

But I know all you are waiting for me to unveil the completed painting, so here it is:

Yeah, I know, you guys love me and think it’s great, but here’s the painting from the girl that shared my still life:

But I have greater plans for my next one! See its auspicious beginning!