Thank you!
Redoing that roof -again- was definitely worth it!

Thank you :)

Thank you, Native & AngelBlue!!

I re-did the roof again, I think the 5th time, hihi. I wasn't happy with it, then finally found the photo of the scene -the temple part that is. That helped tremendously as I finally saw what it was I had to paint and where I had gone wrong.

The roof is now correct, finally!!! Finished the top right corner, began with the tree. That isn't finished. Also did the temple building to the right of the tree. Have to do a bit of work there still.
But finally getting somewhere! That roof ate up a lot of time, re-doing it, incl painting the lines again and again, pfffff...

And the carvings are now in those niches on the side of the temple wall :)

As it is I'm struggling with the colour for the tree. Some photos show it pale brown, sometimes it looks greenish in others more yellow/golden. I'll work it out.

King Winter has finally found my area, unfortunately.
Currently -2C (it's past midnight)
Everything is white with frost outside and the sky is clear, which is why it's so dammed cold.
Moon can be seen really well.

There was a chance of Northern Light tonight, but I ain't going out in this cold, brrr...

Today I got most of the side of the temple done :) A few things left to do.
I reworked the entire roof section as I wasn't happy with it.

I also did the top right corner, then forgot to go over the leafs and vines with green & highlights, doh. So I will have to do that during the next session.

Also quite peculiar how the green colours on the Buddha turned out so emerald? If I'd tried to do that I would've failed. It hadn't been the idea at all, quite shocked to see. I may or may not alter that in a later stage.

Thank you, Julie :)
I'm quite happy with how it's turning out!

Why give up? Any day is the day a new member arrives and turns out to be your forever after.
Or an existing member that you weren't ready for before or vice versa.
Love can be around the corner. You cannot predict when it's going to show up so why not cater for that?
Just be genuine in your profile text, keep it as positive as possible and focused on the now and future, not the past.

Don't make it too long. The attention span of men isn't that great, hihi.

Season 8 of Shetland.
It's a bit weird still without Douglas Henshall being the lead but somehow they seem to be pulling it off.

Finally could begin with the temple ruins today!!
I should've done the upper right corner first, but I didn't have the patience to wait. I wanted to get on with the temple, hihi. I will of course still have to do that corner....

And I will have to rework the perspective of the sunlit side of the temple a bit. At some point you just go "snow blind" and can't tell anymore. Best to step away from it, which I didn't do...

No profile text and with that pretty meaningless profile.
If you want to find someone you got to write something (again).

Happy and the sun is shining :D

I'm thinking the lack of holiday cheer is due to not feeling ready for that yet as we had a very short summer. So no natural shift from fully enjoying that, then autumn etc.
Not having a real summer messed it all up. Autumn began in the last week of June.

^^^^ peculiar, not feeling the holiday cheer either this year... It's still early days, could still come.

Oddly enough my mother has been seriously decorating her new home over the last 2 weeks, sending me photos, but it doesn't stir much in me. Not in the sense that I too want to get the Christmas stuff downstairs. (Normally my mum didn't do much)

Anyhow, not totally weird as it isn't even December, but still...

Thank you so much, Merry!

I've sketched the temple that will be on the right side. If I feel like painting tomorrow I'm beginning with that. Another challenge for sure!

Thank you so much, Julie!

Coffee, and the cleaning dude that's coming over in an hour and a half...

Couple sessions further.

Drinking morning coffee and waking up :)

Bit more done today, and now I'm finally beginning to enjoy it as today wasn't such a struggle :)
There may very well be minor tweaks of what I've got right now, but at least I feel I'm making progress.

Done a bit more work, but holy cow, everything I do seems to be a struggle with this one.

In spite of wanting to move on with other things, I did do tweaks to the ear and face and then finished with the first setup of the hand.
After that it was time to cook tea.

That's just grey background and will be filled in later on, a building, a path and whatnot.

Thank you, Stormy and Jaan Doh!

And yep, very happy my Nila is healthy again :D