Finished this oil painting today. Still trying to learn oil painting. Might take a few decades 🤣

[Ocelot II]

35. Very nice, I really like the colors.

Photographing oil paintings, especially if they're in progress, is difficult because they are a bit shiny and it's really hard to avoid that shine in a photo. The art class I've been taking for years has been held on Zoom since the pandemic, and we send email photos to the instructor for him to evaluate and show to the rest of the class - and I'm always struggling to get a good photo with true colors and no shine. I've had the best luck with photos by placing the painting in an area where there's no artificial light shining on it, and during an overcast day. Then I use Photoshop to fix the colors if they aren't quite right. Once your painting is dry you can get deeper colors if you use retouch varnish but it will still be shiny in photos. Keep it up, you're doing great.