Do I look like Sophie?

Today's painting is inspired by this passage from Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge:

"Have I said it before? I am learning to see. Yes, I am beginning. It still goes badly. But I intend to make the most of my time.

To think, for instance, that I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ...The question of course arises, since they have several faces, what do they do with the others? They store them up. Their children will wear them. But sometimes, too, it happens that their dogs go out with them on. And why not? A face is a face."

So today's (Day 2) painting is "My Dog Face." (Miss you, Sophie!)

And she's off!

Yesterday I decided to do a painting a day. Not an original idea by any means, there are more than a few artists doing this. But I figure it's a good way to exorcise my demons. You know, the bile-colored critic; the baby-shit yellow coward; the crooked-toothed, pumpkin squash-your-ideas monster... to name a few. Kaboom! Outta here! Oh yeah. I'm going to lighten up, have fun, paint for the simple pleasure of it. So, I'm waving to you folks on the dock... my skiff is taking off.
Day 1 image: "The Hose"