What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! - Shakespeare, Henry VI Good morning, and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! I hope all is well with you in whichever part of the world you are reading this from! We are still immersed in the bleak midspring here in Ireland with plenty of wind and rain to go 'round. But that's what keeps it green! After celebrating the 10th birthday of the blog over the last month, last week we looked at the painting competition I organised which helped mark the big occasion. For the next few weeks, we're going to look in detail at the painting process of my competition piece. Bear in mind that I had never really painted a bust before (although, I suppose the character markers for World of Smog (the very first models posted on this blog) are really busts. I also had never entered a live painting competition before - so with a lot of 'firsts' at stake, I wanted to put a huge effort into this piece.  Let us begin. To continue the them...