The finished painting of the lion..

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Here is the finished painting of the lion. I wanted to make sure I finished it today so that I can show it to Paul when he comes round tomorrow. But that means I may have rushed it a bit and not done the beet job of it. The first thing I did was paint some raw umber on the left side of the mane, then a large streak in the middle and some smaller bits at the bottom of the right hand side. I also painted raw umber around the ear. Then I painted the top of the left side of the mane with raw umber and a little bit of yellow ochre. The part of the mane directly above the head which is lighter I did with yellow ochre and I did the face with yellow ochre too but later I decided it was too bright and tried to dull it down with some raw sienna. I pained the nose so that it gradually went from the lighter colour to the darker colour. When that was dry I started to do some lighter contrasting strokes of yellow ochre on areas that were painted with raw sienna. I painted the bit just under the face with yellow ochre and white. Then I added a few darker bits here and there. I did lighter bits on the bottom right. When that was dry I did the eye and nose, going around the areas first in black, then putting in the black part of the eye and the black nostril. When that was dry I painted the coloured part of the eye in yellow ochre and I put a white dot for the highlight. I painted the nose with scarlet, raw umber and a little bit of white. I added the shaded areas around the eyes and muzzle area, the large area of dark that goes from the eyes to the mouth, and I did the hairs on his chin in pure white. I went over all the areas of mane agaIn. I noticed that the top left area of mane seemed to have gone a funny green colour where the colours had mixed, so I went over that agaIn with some raw sienna and yellow ochre to try and get rid of the green. I propped the painting up against the back of my chair and stood back to look at it, then I went back and adjusted anything that needed to be adjusted. When I thought the painting was finished, or as close as I was going to get, I signed it in the left corner. Not that you can see it because of the dark paint! So that's my lion painting finished. I'm not completely satisfied with the mane, I think it looks too clumpy with not enough individual hairs showing. What have you lot been getting up to today? I hope you are all well. Have a great night.