A new year and - in a couple of ways - a new way of assessing and doing things for me. In a personal sense its been the end of my first completely full year of being sober. It's not been pleseant or easy, but the want for alcohol in general as well as while painting is slowly waining. Part of its effect was how far behind it put me with painting both stuff to go on my shop and completing commissions. I found it way too easy to accept them, but became overwhelmed by them as I fell further and further behind. But, with a slightly clearer mind, I've been working on speeding up my painting and processing, without (hopefully) dropping the general quality of the work. This brings me nicely onto what I've been doing of late. As usual, I haven't been updating the blog as regularly as I should have - although I have been posting stuff on both my Instagram and Facebook pages, so I've not been fully off-radar.  Regarding stuff done , I painted and scratch-built a selection...