Owl has friends

     Well I had good intentions of keeping up with my blog a lot more after my last postathon but that never happened, lots of time making the work not so much documenting it but hey.
    I just wasn't sure that the owl painting was finished so I added some extra panels to extend it, here's the finished result...

and here's a few detail shots.....

perhaps one of the fiddliest bits of painting I have ever done

 And in case you were wondering....yes the honeycomb took a long long time and yes it was very tedious in parts.