Thank you! :bigsmile: Every piece I paint is a learning experience; I’m becoming resigned to the fact that even when I have a color sketch sitting beside me, the paint job develops in its own direction and is apt to leave the original plan behind. But so long as people like the results, then it’s all good. I keep telling myself I can always paint another to look like the first one was intended to. (Heaven knows what direction that one will go! :~ )
I love experimenting with what the paints can do. N’Twe’s eyespots are a combination of metallic purple and purple interference overglazed with a transparent purple. It took a few layers to get the kind of color I was after, and I’m glad people like the effect! My tastes generally run towards “magpie” and sometimes I don’t know when to stop adding color.