A Challenge

Update (8:26 p.m.): It's not happening tonight. I cannot get the mouth right and the relationship of the eyes to the nose to the mouth right, and I do not want to screw this gal up...so, best to back off, let it go, move on to something else.




For better or worse, I have been putting this off for weeks now: putting a face on the "redhead in the tropics."

Eyes, nose, eyebrows, lips, cheeks! I have never done it before, and sketching is a lot different than painting. That fear of failure has caused me to procrastinate.

I can paint a volcano, a bourbon glass, an armchair, even a self-portrait, but there is that fear of screwing up something which I want, somehow, to be beautiful and almost be a tribute to that elusive red-headed muse to whom I referred earlier.

Time to just let go and move forward.