This weekend, I had some fairly major things to get done that did not involve painting, but by God, I was going to paint anyway! Nay, I was going to stand on a hill like Scarlett O'Hara, shake my paintbrush at the sky, and make rash vows before God and everyone to CATCH UP WITH THE CHALLENGE! (And indeed I did!)
Here's Canvas 9, which introduces yet another topic with which I have a macabre fascination: People from history who have been beheaded. In this case, I painted Anne Boleyn with her de facto executioner, Henry VIII, or as he was also known, her husband.
Since I had a warm color palette, I followed the advice of Sal Scheibe, momentarily relinquished my obsession with purple shadows, and went with a Raw Umber (light and dark varieties) on poor Anne's face.
