Lucky Cat

Saturday, September 20

Lucky Cat or Maneki-neko is my first daily painting practice subject.

This is a new practice that I’m starting and it’s part “daily pages”, part blog and part painting practice.

I won’t necessarily finish a new painting every day but I’d like to at least work on a small piece every day and I don’t really want to carry anything over more than 2 days.

Anyway, he’s been sitting in my study for a long time and he called out to be painted today. I learned that the lucky little things can either have their right paw raised, their left paw raised or both at the same time.

Left paw raised → get more customers (for business)

Right paw raised → get more money (for home)

Both paws raised → offers protection

So I suppose my friend is good for business.

Since I’m going away soon, I was trying out a new medium and process that I can use to be more mobile. I went with OMS solution for a wash layer followed by a 1:1 mix of Megilp to OMS. The little panel that I painted on wasn’t porous at all and I used way too much OMS first which made things a little sloppy. After I realized things weren’t going as planned, I put it aside and then finished some finer strokes with the Megilp+OMS in the morning.