The villain enters the story

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The fireplace and its chimney are the villains of my story. I needed a model for this character, so I talked my fireplace into posing. My fireplace is actually used for storing my overflow books, but for simplicity’s sake I decided to leave them out.

I’ve been painting for the last week using only the Zorn palette and I like the restrictions it places on me. Since I’m just learning about color mixing, working with only three colors and black and white is actually liberating. These few colors have become almost comforting, whereas my bigger palette with 32 colors is scary.