I've now started to paint the Irishman I mentioned in an earlier post. I'm using oils and have applied some light and mid tone and now working some darker tones. I have been working from a book called "Colour Mixing Recipes For Portraits" by William F. Powel and finding that I spend more time colour mixing than painting. To be honest it's a bit like painting by numbers and building up the image with glazes.

Still lots to do and will post more as it progresses.