Cows, cows everywhere!

First and foremost: I refuse to call cows cattle, end of discussion.

These cows are color-tryouts for a huge-ass (75 cm by 115 cm) painting for my cousin. She's a vet, hence the cows, and asked if I could paint something with livestock and lots of color for her new home. Since I rarely draw for other people, much less even as a decoration for their living rooms, I've been fretting over the color palette ever since... Anyway, I'm still working on it right now, and I might or might not post some crappy phone pictures of the progress later.

In case you're wondering, no, I haven't been drawing the same cow four times. I've drawn it once, taken a picture (because of non-working scanner) and printed it four times. And learned two things: printer ink bleeds and people like tetraptychs*.

*Tetraptych apparently isn't an English word. English artists seemingly never went above three pictures in one... picture... painting... whatever. The English are silly. If you happen to know the correct word, please tell me!
*edit: it is an English word, or at least recognized as such by Wikipedia. It just doesn't feature in my dictionary. 

Work in progress snapshot: Peacock!

At the moment, I'm rather busy with school, but this quite unfinished painting has been lying around from before it got busy. It's inspired by a horrific drawing in my notebook. But based on that I made some follow up sketching, which resulted in the bigger picture.

The peacock lady - she's getting a big tail, just wait - is holding a shard of a mirror, not entirely happy with what she sees in there. Vanity, you know? It's a slight nod towards the seven sins, combining vanity and pride, and maybe a little envy.