Spikus Interruptus

Technical difficulties have prevented me from posting for almost a week. In the meantime, I have made significant progress on "Spikus Aurelius." What you last saw as this...




became this...



and is now this:



I suppose this would be a good time to confess that I do, on occasion, use a paintbrush. In this case, I had so clearly screwed up several features of his face that I was left with no choice but to white them out and start over. Thus the brush.