Canvas #5: 30 Canvases in 30 Days

I think I mentioned that I joined this challenge a little late.  Did I also mention that the only stack of true canvases I had in the house were 9x12? In retrospect, I probably should have used some of my canvas panels, because after painting five 9x12 canvases in three days, I am kind of exhausted. 

For Day 5, I started off with a very bright orange and a very bright pink. 

I gessoed in two figures, whom I intended to be Napoleon and Josephine.  Given the French connection, I stenciled on some fleur de liseseses.  (That is totally the plural of fleur de lis.  Don't play like it isn't.)

Oh grumpy Napoleon, don't be sad.  You will soon be wearing your emperor's new clothes.

Okay, so grumpy Napoleon wasn't sad about his clothes; he was sad about his queen being in love with another man.  And I can't help history.  What I could help was the upper right corner, with which I became completely obsessed. 

It needed something.  It needed . . . white?  I felt it did.  I started splattering white paint into the upper corner, but it wasn't enough.  Maybe I needed to add another fleur de lis.  So I did.  One thousand six hundred and forty two tiny changes later, I was finished.

And I was happy.