The last two weeks I used to do an acrylic painting of a tiger. On the first session I put down base colors and tried to set up the composition. It was really rough starting out, and I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to put down on the canvas what I was imagining in my head. I also realized how I had it set up was not very good compositionally, because I had put all the focus of the image in the top third of the canvas. The second session, I was able to plot out the colors much more thoroughly, but I wasn't happy at all with how the tiger was coming out, and it still was not in a good position compositionally, because while I had made it larger, it was still too high on the canvas. Monday, school was out, so I could not paint at the zoo that day, but Wednesday I went in with purpose. I shifted the position of the tiger, moved it lower, and finilazed a lot of the colors on the canvas, added a stream, and made a lot of good progress. I was later able to show a picture of it to Terri Placentia and she gave me some advice for moving forward with the painting. The last time I worked on the painting, it was much later than it should have been, but eventually I finished the painting and I'm proud of how it turned out. It was also a cool experience to paint in the zoo instead of just draw, and a lot of kids came and talked to me about the drawing, and it was actually one of the kids I talked to who helped convince me to add a stream. I also got to talk to a woman who volunteered at the zoo a lot, and she told me about how one of the tigers was being moved to San Francisco to try breeding. Because of the one tiger moving, they seperated her from the other two triplets, and she was trying to talk to her siblings, woofing to eachother over everyone talking.