Painting over Jon

I've been waiting all week to get my drawing tablet. I phoned the shop on Tuesday (after being out all day Monday), and asked if they had any in stock? No... but phone later in the week, we should get a delivery of them then. So, I phoned back today, and they have got 1 in. YAY. But ONE!?! Someone else might get it before I do! I had a grand plan that my lovely husband would collect it on his ride home from work, and then it started raining, and it isn't the best thing in the world to get electronics wet.... So I phoned the shop again, to ask if my local store would get one in for me... No... But I could phone the other store, and it would deliver it to them for me to pick up tomorrow. YAY. A solution, and now it is reserved for me! I guess this is what you get for finding the cheapest drawing tablet in town, ... a lack of customer service. (And yes, when I've been into the shop before I was shocked that the shop 'assistants' serving me looked like 15 year olds, not helped by the fact that they were wearing hoodies).

Anyway... What does this have to do with painting over Jon? Well I decided today would be the day when I would start a painting, over the top of an old one I had already started. The first painting was going to be a portrait of Jon. But the size, and the gaze, and this being the first portrait I had ever painted was a little intimidating. So I gave up, and am now painting a landscape of trees over the top. At the moment it has quite an interesting effect with the eyes still peering through the trees.

Apologies for the bad picture, it goes from blindingly bright, to dark and pouring with rain every 5 minutes, and it makes it a little hard for photography, especially when I'm slack and take it on my phone.