Starting to look a bit more like something you might want on your tabletop.
Today's title sounds almost like an 60-minute television, Amazon, Hulu, or Netflix dramedy. An Eastern European family of limited means makes good and moves to the upscale suburbs outside your city of choice where problem assimilating ensue as cultural, political, and social differences clash. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll identify with the easily relatable characters. You'll marvel at the cleverly penetrating and ironic commentary. Sales of track suits and shoes with five-inch heels will surge as will ratings. And a second season will follow in short order. Right.
My television treatment aspirations aside, brushwork continues apiece on the squadron of Minden Bosniaks as and when time has allowed this weekend. I went ahead with applying a sparing coat of white atop the tan undercoat for the turbans and plumes, taking care to allow the tan to show through in places. Finished that up yesterday evening following The Young Master's bedtime as The Grand Duchess engaged in an orgy of Christmas wrapping and packaging for parents, sibling, nephew, and partner on the west coast.
Meanwhile, I started adding some scarlet highlights once the turbans and plumes were done. I'll continue with the reds today (Monday) after entering final grades for my students this term into the requisite online database and possibly add the mustaches and hair in dark brown just to make the riders look more, um, human. A nice, easy way to wrap up painting up for the evening might include a few horse manes and perhaps white markings on their muzzles for good measure. Anything to move the process forward. Stay tuned!
-- Stokes
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