Two days later on "M"

I worked on "M" for the past couple of days, but didn't feel good enough about it to post anything. Today I finally succeeded in covering all the white canvas. When was it that I thought I could get it covered with a first pass in one day??? What was I thinking? A little overoptimistic. But now it's covered, and I can go back in to different areas and do a second pass. Here's where it stands now:

I had repainted the face yesterday, and that is what I'm not happy with. I moved the eyes down a little and softened edges, but I overworked the eyes and his expression is too angry. I like to work wet-into-wet, but once it starts getting tacky, I like to wait until it's dry and then paint over it. So I'm leaving the eyes alone for now.

I painted the m&m bag today and placed the m&ms on the mirror tray (I don't think I put the red ones in yet.) I also painted the upside-down reflection of the mask. I also spent some time on the money and finally painted the Ones. I haven't yet painted the metalwork on the sides of the tray, maybe I'll get to that tomorrow. One of the things I'm going to do next is work more on the moss. Most of the activity in this painting is on the left side, so I'm going to try to make the upper right corner of the painting more interesting. Or I might put something on the wall back there. I bought a postcard of Matisse's "The Dance",  which might do the trick. 

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