Sea Turtle

Today I found some of my Nana's old acrylic paints in a craft drawer in a closet.  I was obviously stoked!  However, I still run into the issue of having no canvases...

No worries though!  My grandpa keeps a bunch of scrap wood from various projects in the garage, so I decided to confiscate the stash.

Upon finding just the right piece, I now had to determine what to paint...  Because I am now living in California, I thought something ocean related would be the ideal way of paying homage to my new panorama.  Fish lack personality, so I quickly nixed the idea... Sea turtle it is!!!

I began by sketching a rough turtle design, going off of some pics I found on the net.  Next I painted the water around the little dude in various shades of blue.  Fins were painted after that in a brownish yellow.

Tomorrow I will work on the face and body!  This is the part that I'm most nervous about!

All in all, I'm having a great time with this!!!