This month my daughter wanted to paint, so I took that as an opportunity to do my own monthly painting. She was painting a page with an octopus and other sea creatures, so I thought I’d try my own. I tried to use one purple as the main color, with a darker purple as an accent on the edge to try to give it some depth (around the edges, the tops of the tentacles, around the eyes).

I also reserved another purple for the underside of the tentacles to really sell the fact that the tentacles are twisted around this way and that. I tried to add a little gray around the edges of the eyes, but in the end it washed out.

One thing I dislike about this one is that there’s a very obvious seam where the tentacles meet the body. I’m not sure how to better blend those transitions, but perhaps practice will help.