And A Little Bit More Paint....

A Very Very Little Bit.....

The Weekend felt Very Short, Dear Readers, after the fun of a Vacation week and the Trials of returning to work and the Huge list of tasks that is inevitable after time off! So the Tiny Little bit of painting that I have to show you seems almost not worth the showing! But I did add the figures on the third section of the Castle ceiling to the right of the Chimney. Here above you can see them with the under-painting and the black outlines done. It is a series of musicians and dancers, some Sedate and Courtly, and some clearly making Very Merry! After all, this is meant to portray Humanity and its foibles and follies!

And here you can see the first section with the next painting step done....

Oh, you couldn't see a difference?

Well, I have added a layer of "flesh tone" 

to all the hands and faces. 

The details will be added later once the costumes have been painted.

I added "flesh tone" to all the hands and faces... 

but forgot to take pictures of the Feasting Nobles too.

I started to add the green of the landscape background...

Here you can see it with the Saints too for scale reference.

These little figures are each about one and one half inches tall!

Here I have added color to the gowns too.

At this point I am working a little bit on each panel at the same time.

This is so that the overall color arrangement will stay balanced.

Here I have added some color to the Feasters....

And to the Dancers....

And a little more to the Feasters...

This is Such a slow process.....

I am sure to bore you with every step!

 

And One other thing I worked on, Dear Readers,

was the leaded lines for the Willowcrest windows.

These are made from golfer's lead tape cut into narrow strips 

and adhered to the outside of each window, 

copying the design done in black "lead" on the inside.

It is a very slow and tedious process... 

but it makes the World of difference in how these windows 

look from the outside... which is where they are the most visible!

You can see that I have only done the two panes on the left...

Here I am testing the view of the windows from the outside.....

All of the exterior trim will be painted in the silver color 

and there will be thin muntins added where 

the painted stripes are on the windows.

I stopped after only the one window 

because I really wanted to paint!

But I only got a little bit done Dear Readers...

It is such a slow process....

And was a Very short Weekend!