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Day 7: 35 hours!

 Blog 7: 8:00-12:30 1:00-2:30 4:00-5:00 = 7 hours

Today I started early again. I made so much progress on my painting today. There was a class first block in the studio this morning so Corby was in the studio teaching. He and I talked about what my game plan for the day should be and we decided that I should work on the dorm door and the Slocomb windows. I am excited about the Slocomb windows so I started with that. I already had the sky background painted so I just needed to do the wooden outlines. I worked for a very long time on getting it just right and was taking extreme caution not to mess up. Then to get the design of a front door to a dorm, I walked over to Ives and took a picture of the front door so that I could use it as inspiration. As I painted, it started to become one of my favorite small orbs. I worked on the maple tapping orb and fixed the bridge in the Costa Rica orb. I noticed that the big orb didn't match the rest of them. The style of the big orb was more cartoon and the style of the small orbs was a little bit more realistic and impressionist. So after noticing that, I decided to make it go along with the theme of the rest of the painting. 

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