i know when i said i was going to paint giant tentacles on the wall of my new room, people thought i was kidding. well. i wasn't.
yesterday we decided to tackle painting the kitchen, and i did some work on my room. three hours and half a roll of painter's tape later, this is what it looked like:
already looking pretty sweet, eh?
then i painted...these were shot at 1am, so i apologize for the shit lighting.
then, when i realized a) how much fun i was having and b) how much paint i had left, i sketched out the rest of the octopus and started taping (i say started b/c i ran out):
there are two other tentacles on the remaining side walls (these two walls are opposite each other). and i rearranged the suckers on these tentacles a bit, too.
i've put the first coat of paint on the larger part of the octopus, and i also painted the suckers on the first three tentacles. they're very bright, but i like the colors a lot!
i still have to paint the wall(s) aqua, but (late) tonight i decided that i also wanted a shark somewhere on my wall. so, in the corner, i've done a rough sketch of my personal favorite, the tiger shark (same species that adorns my lower back). there's a faint tentacle in the background, that one is not getting painted, it was one of the initial three i drew but then i switched it out for the lower one.
that poor shark is so tiny, it looks like it's going to be eaten by the octopus.
tomorrow's tasks: second coat of paint on the octopus body, primer on the shark (there's a lot of pencil smears) and possibly start to paint the shark.
i also think i need a third thing on that far wall...not necessarily a creature, though. theoretically, a giant octopus would live at a depth where photosynthesizers couldn't really survive (ack, i'm such a geek)...so maybe a pirate's treasure chest or other wreckage? ponderponderponder.
