New Year..... Same Old Story....

Patience.....

I am Sure you will Not be surprised Dear Readers, when I tell you that I am not quite finished with painting this (last?) year's Christmas Card! I have been devoting every spare minute of every day for weeks now... but it is a slow process. At least I can tell you that it is Nearly finished, and I am at the point where I am confident I will be happy with the results when I am finished, but I really can't afford to hurry the process and make mistakes...! (There is no "correcting" watercolor painting!) So I am stopping by here to let you know that it is coming along nicely and we just have to be Patient. But that doesn't mean we can't Dream while we are waiting. The Winter nights are long, after all, and the imagination wanders to all those Projects that are still waiting for an update. And most especially to the Castle, with those recently (relatively) acquired Doors..... which both conceal from and tease the Imagination!

They are so Raw and unfinished....

 yet at the same time they completely Define the structure

 in a way I could not imagine before I added them!

And those windows just Beg to be looked into...

or out of, it would appear!

Who have we here.....?

It looks like the Hounds are keeping guard in the Great Hall!

I am not sure who they are expecting to see....

But I was hoping to have a glimpse of that Still Unfinished ceiling.....

With those Patient Saints! 

Remember them?

I had intended to work on them last summer 

when I decided I needed to finish the structural parts first.... 

and hence the doors....

and I didn't get to the painting.

(Thus the Patience of the Saints!)

Oh, you want to actually See them, Dear Readers? 

And not just a dark and moody ceiling...?

Well, here is the view with the "flash"... 

although this view would never be seen in RL 

if this were a real Castle.....

The lighting would never have been good enough.

But we can imagine....!

And I can Hope I will find time 

to work on it some more sometime soon.

But not before I finish the Card....

and the lilac blossoms....

Which I confess, I have fallen a little bit behind on.

You see above the florets for blossom number thirty-nine.... 

not yet assembled.... and a week overdue.

But it is all in a good cause...

Because I am Nearly finished with the Card!

 So there you see, Dear Readers,

It is a New Year, but it's the same old story...

We can Dream....

 but we have to have Patience to see the results.

 

(And I hope to get caught up on all your blogs soon!)

Happy New Year!