Starting block one -close to final step... not the apotheosis of my art carreer but it did release the kid in me!

I need to wait for daylight for final adjustments. All and all a good experience given the fact that I tried new ways of applying paint.

Given the state of affairs after my first 5 minutes of experimental paint application (using a painting knife for the first time to paint the figure), one could wonder how I got as far as the previous snap shot! Look at this harbinger of things to come below...

... a monument raised to my favourite adage: "if you're gonna be dumb, you've got to be tough". Needless to say, somewhere down the line, when it comes to the development of a looser technique, there has to be a happy medium!