Excited

 The beginning of a painting is always the most exciting time. So many possibilities! Of course, there's some tedium as well; this canvas is too large for me to do a standard trace-and-transfer method, so I'm having to measure everything carefully, and even then I make mistakes. 

What I love about genre painting— the sort of everyday, slice-of-life work— is the fact that there's so much more there than meets the eye on first glance. This little interior features (or, will feature) three couples with their heads close together. The image of a geisha on the back wall is going to be mirrored in the window glass on the far left; and she wears a similar hairstyle to the cashier. On the far right will be another cashier, in ghostly blue from the computer screen.

                                           Jinya, work in progress (click on image for larger view)