The Chapel Ceiling.....

 

 Slowly But Surely....

I Hope you will understand, Dear Readers, why it takes so long to make so little progress on such a small piece of the painted ceiling in The Chapel of my Castle dollhouse. For one thing, the paintbrushes I use are small to tiny in size. For another, I have to mix the paints to the right color blends and consistency as I need them, and being acrylic paints they dry quickly... which is good in one sense but means I am constantly mixing more and using only a tiny tiny bit in a teeny tiny space in a little specific corner of this ceiling before needing to use a slightly different color and so on! The Triangular area of The Judgement scene is 5 inches tall by 10 inches wide at the widest, the angels are all less than two inches tall and the people are 1 inch at the most..... it is slow and careful going! But when I get started the hours can disappear, and bit by bit the figures become what they were meant to be. I finally got back into it last week... just painting the features on the angels' faces... then outlining all the human bodies...

And starting in on the Angels' robes... 

and forgetting to take many photos...

Adding details to their wings, 

another layer of blue to the background

and starting in on the devils.... All in a days work!

And then because the morning sun was shining into the Chapel

 I needed to take a bunch of pictures while the light was so beautiful...

And you can see how the Judgement Scene arches over the doorway...

 with Christ's birth on one side and his death on the other...

The Madonna and Child over the altar.... 

Christ on the right and Moses on the left...

The incomplete Creation Scenes above the Adam and Eve Temptation....

 completely washed out by the direct sunlight....

And the whole ceiling in one shot... 

revealing how much there still is to do!

And working on the Creation Scenes again.... 

adding the faces to the suns in the rest of the scenes...

which was all I accomplished that day...

Because some days, Dear Readers, the slowness of the progress

 is due to my own uncertainty about what to do...

 first... next.... before... after..... what color... how much..... 

and fixing tiny oopses.... 

the Moon faces were particularly challenging here, 

being each about 3/16th of an inch across!

And the oh so tiny details on the leafy trees.... 

in two additional shades of green...

not to mention the flowering blooms

 with an entirely other green...

And starting to add more grassy ground plants...

And adding the grassy ground around Adam and Eve....

never quite sure when to stop.

And the next day starting to add layers and details to the beasts...

Bit by bit making them sort of recognizable... 

the Medieval painter had a fairly standard list of beasts to include.

Here the beasts are mostly completed...

 the ox and the horse, the sheep and the hare, 

the boar and the stag, the camel and the dog... (or wolf)....

Here they are even closer... 

each Creation "world" is about 2 inches across...

And adding a little more outline definition to Adam and Eve... 

I will have to decide if they need more.

And that is as far as I got, Dear Readers,

 adding tiny bits of paint and Slowly but Surely

 making progress on the Chapel Ceiling!