Phew! I managed to finish one last painting for the FC artshow this weekend, hurray.

This is another painting that sat around mostly finished for several months (more like a year in this case), and this afternoon I had the sudden stroke of inspiration to finish it for good.

There are definitely things and approaches I would have done differently if I were doing this piece from scratch today.. but, I also enjoyed the challenge of working with older material. It was certainly fun to work in a looser style, and I discovered some wet-in-wet techniques I want to play around more with in future pieces.

Oh. And I really like koi. This scene is like a Kio dream come true.