Well, I'm about half way with my owl painting. I was being good, doing exactly as instructed until it came time to put in the darker spots. Got all artistic then promptly freaked out. I painted all the dark spots in like the photo, trouble is it looked like a chess board! So I've now painted back over many of the spots with a muddy orange so when I paint over the lighter colours I won't have a whole bunch of dark patches that need 4 coats of paint to cover.... and it won't look too much like a chess board.
I also had a problem with the feather on the beak because instead of doing the beak and and gently easing the colour back to grey, I just painted about the right amount of black beak and left the rest white, so don't do that! I've now gone over it twice, I'm hoping by the time I paint the lightest feathers the line I created will no longer be visible, barb is up to lesson 5, here's her link
http://howtooilpaint-barbn.blogspot.com.au/
