Finished my little side project for some former ice-cream sticks, plus a couple of additional ones too. I have been finishing a set of Mercenaries and a Native American Chief too, but I'll post them in the next few days. Still need to varnish , but their all done, and as I said in my previous post, I'm not too sure what use they may be beyond just being (hopefully) interesting/pretty to look at. They'll be going on the shop soon, probably framed? Not too sure yet. Also decided on another social media stepback/detox? Just don't think it's for me, seems to set me orf on cynicism, feeling down and, ultimately - drinking. Which is never fun. So while I haven't deleted them, I doubt I'll be going back to Twitter anytime soon. And I'm only staying with Facebook until I finish a couple of commissions. Well, don't want to end on too much of a downer, as a result, I might actually start posting regularly here (OoOOOOoooo). Okay, this blog doesn't get many...

With my sporadic painting time at the moment, as well as trying to get some model painting in, I've also started using up a large collection of Ice-cream sticks by painting them. For what? Not entirely sure at the moment; they may find themselves on the shop as just strange micro-art pieces, but you could use them as thick bookmarks? ... okay maybe not. They may look a little better in box frames too. Hmmm - Anyway, this is a quickie post to show them off. I still need to finish the lower areas, but they're pretty much done. I decided to keep them fairly simple, and go for generic fantasy types: Wizard/Mage, Elf, Cyborg, and Lovecraftian creature ... Have a few ideas for others, but for now this is just a sideline while still painting from a suitcase!