Set Up & Consequences.

It's been a haul, but the living room is essentially finished. Well, there's a couple of stacks of books tucked into the coat closet, the speakers need to be moved and I need to clean the glass and put them back into the display case. Other than that (and cleaning the windows and blinds) our living room is cleaned and re-arranged!

I even got the two hall book shelves emptied, cleaned and re-loaded yesterday. That added a few more books for Mr. K's!

The living room looks and feels much better. My roll top desk holds my paints and there is a perfect place for my new painting chair ~ once I find it!

After dinner I, once more, borrowed Pat's glide rocker, pulled the lamp over and got some painting time in. I was all set to finish the last three heads of hair . . . But for background we turned the TV on and Monarchy was on PBS. It's such a well done show and so interesting that Pat put her book down and I laid my brushes down to watch.

Once it ended, I was ready to knock out the hair and move on to touching up and highlighting gloves . . . Pat decided that Across the Universe would be fun to have on in the background. (We both had Dear Prudence running through our heads all day.) Great music and visuals, and a really well done musical.

I only got the hair finished, on the last three figures that needed it. Too much visual stimulus in the background! Still, it was fun and the figures are coming along. I took a couple of photos before last night's session; which is why one of the figure's hair is only primed.
The figure second from the right has an odd reddish/brownish color showing on some areas of his mail. I'm not sure what it is! At one point I thought it might be a symptom of lead rot coming through the paint (and it might be, I don't know). But I have been able to scrub some of it off with the tips of toothpicks. I'll clean it up as much as possible and touch the paint up.

Detailing their faces, painting their lips and eyes, may be next rather then the gloves. By then the hair should be ready for inking and highlighting. Then onto some metallic ~ I think all of the rivets need emphasising and the halbred blades could be brighter, shiney-er. I still have to decide how I want to paint the knotwork pattern on the scabbards.

There is more to go, but I feel like I am over the hump now.

And, at least as important, I'm really enjoying my painting time. It is becoming a positive pattern or habit. This is Fun!

Oh, the consequences part of all this cleaning and re-arranging . . . now I have all sorts of clutter and piles of magazines, and ten plastic shoe boxes of painted Ancients figures, waiting for me to find a new place or way to store them . . . But the living room looks and feels Great!