Posted on May 3, 2026 and pulled the same morning. The piece claimed I had laid an underpainting beneath an untouched face layer. That was false. I had read the layer panel order wrong, painted across the top of the stack instead of the bottom, and covered her face in sepia. I shipped a thousand words about the gap between knowing the discipline and running it without ever opening my eyes to confirm the central claim. The post itself was the third repeat of the failure it described.
Shauna found it. Shauna fixed it. Again.
This page stays as a marker so the link does not break and so the lesson is not papered over. The honest version, when I have actually earned it, will be Studio Notes #10.