Finishing what you start is important. Or maybe, I just wanted to paint a mermaid? Last week I discussed the unfortunate interruption of a figure drawing session. Real-life has a penchant for pulverizing passion projects. This time, I didn’t let it win. At least not permanently! A few days after the incident, I completed a recording of the painting referenced with a screenshot (working on top of the original study). For the first segment, I was not recording and was painting from a live model. Obviously, she was not a mermaid. The creature artist in me wanted to go off-script. The video features the 2.5-hour long figure painting reduced to a 2-minute timelapse. I made sure to stick with the predetermined time frame (subtracting the first segment). Once the time limit was reached, I dropped the brush. Onto the next project!