While creating the painting of Molly, I took pictures of the progress along the way. Sometimes when I'm creating a painting, I find that at some point it goes through an "awful" stage. It can be hard to refrain from starting all over. With this painting, though, each stage was still making my heart happy. I thought it might be fun to put these pictures up so that you can see how my animal portraits happen.

Here she is. All done.

This image appears quite a bit lighter than the "almost done" image. This is a photography issue. I think that the final was taken outside and the "almost done" was taken inside. The "almost done" photo is a bit on the dark side.