started painting Shamrock!

I had some free time to myself scheduled in this evening and I decided to use it to work on my painting.  I was obsessing about the sketch up, erasing and sketching and erasing some more and then I just decided enough was enough and started to paint.  I didn't get too far in before my time was up, but I did get a pretty good start going.  There is, of course, a lot I don't like, but it looks like a cat!:

a bit darker than the read thing, but there it is!