It's been while since my last update. Here's the last pic from May 25th. I was making excellent progress until I pinched an nerve in my neck (whilst sleeping violently) and since then I have been useless and restless to beging painting again.

Here's a picture of the progress as of a few days ago... The antlers are mostly complete, just needing a little fine tuning once I have finished the background. I have just  done a base layer in the foreground.. it looks very strange right now, but once the background is complete I will be filling the foreground with foliage in fall colors.

By the end of the weekend, all the fur will be complete! Before starting on the maginificient antlers, I will likely do a wash in the foreground and while I wait for that to dry, I'll begin the antlers.

Progress over the last week ....

March 20th

Here are some of the later progress shots..... it's exciting seeing it come together.

It's already March 7th and shamefully this is my first post of the month. Below you can see the work of 7 days of painting on top of 5 days sketching the moose onto canvas. I have drawn out the entire moose which is not easy to see in the photograph below, but you can see that I began with the head of the moose, which is much more exciting than doing the background first ;-)  The head looks a bit odd right now, suspended in the middle of the canvas, but rest assured - it will all make sense in the end. By the end of this week,I will have finished the head and much more of the body ... in time you will better be able to see the exact posture of the moose and his amazing antlers, a grand specimen!