This painting was quite a lot of trouble. The first night I started working on it I had completely finished with the panther before I realized that the jaw was terribly out of line. I re-painted it, and that's where everything started to go wrong. I made multiple changes to the composition, as well as to the lighting and detail on the panther itself. I've never had a painting present so many problems. (Granted, that's not saying too much, I haven't done many actual paintings until lately.) I've declared it finished at least twice before now. I finally feel satisfied with it, however. The final touches today were the flowers in the lower corner and the beetles on the leaves at the top. I kind of felt like calling this 'Variations on the Color Yellow' but that was wierd, so I went with something a little more cliche. :D Acrylic on 8x10 Clayboard. Original available.