Start of the new week and so a new painting lesson – courtesy of myself and boy am I a hard task master!  Stage one is to het a reasonable outline upon which to paint.  This is no Holbein but it will do for my purposes – after all I’m not going to prick this out onto canvas but rather paint over so the outline will be part of the painting.

The hounds of “famine, sword and fire” are at my heels – for’ard