Real objects

The good news is that I am progressing in my lessons and learning a lot.  I have moved on to painting real objects and giving them form and dimensionality.  The silly part is that I have been painting toilet paper.

In my defense, that is the lesson in the book.  And it makes a certain amount of sense -- it is in a natural progression from the shaded cylinders I had been painting recently. I just feel kind of silly doing it.

Nevertheless, I pursued the lesson and have painted several rolls of toilet paper.  This is my most recent one, and the one I am most satisfied with:

the best of several iterations