Daily Painting 3 and 4: Red Eyed Tree Frog

This week I painted an orchid for a couple of hours, however it was after I worked on the flower that I decided that I needed make a couple of changes to this daily painting idea: 1. Not worry if I finish something in a day, 2. Push myself and really experiment with these small paintings.

I ended up not liking the orchid and wiped it off. I then started to paint a red-eyed tree frog on top of it: 

Experiment: a flat image and background next to a (hopefully) highly detailed image. In this case I want to push myself with the detail of the frog. When painting, it is usually easier to paint your shadows darker than needed and then pull them back. I am going to try to do this with the highlights as well, something I have never done before. My thought is to let the paint dry a little and then lightly glaze back over the strong white. We shall see.