 This one goes out to Matt, who wanted an opossum in the snow and I realize there are people who think opossums are beautiful animals. I find them creepy. I applied my normal procedure, which is to try to tie the animal and the background together, so included both in the same wash. I got more than a little carried away with the color here. My reference had very rich color on the back of this guy. Yeah, oops. I'll have to fix that with gouache in just a minute, but adding some grasses in the meantime and some shadows so those things go along with the shadows and the rest of the picture. While this opossum does not necessarily look like a huggable creature, let me point you to another video that I did earlier this year where I made a opossum that actually looks really cute.