@kevinmellon - Thanks much, I appreciate that. A lot of people don't pick up on those subtleties. Also, I dig the perspective angle you're popping in the most recent piece above. That's a great shot.
"My Little Cthulhu" piece, shown at full size. I did it as one of the demo pieces of what quality one will be getting once I put my $5 Icon Art commission option live:
@ Greasemonkey: Re: your SNOM question about the stencils.
Basically, I'm doing a small multi-panel painting based around the pattern of a Nautilus shell. Background is Tri-Art Liquid Mirror and iridescent stainless steel, with washes of phthalo blue and green. Then I stenciled the pattern on in phosphorescent paint (Tri-Art again), laid down a coat of gloss gel, and now I'm building up shapes on top of that with more gel. Once that's done I'll add more blue-green washes. In the dark the phosphorescent shines right through everything.
@ Amalgamated Biscuit- You have to get the moleskin with the cardstock pages. The regular sketchbook moleskin can't handle anything wetter than ballpoint.
@RanRan Really? I've seen people who use a fountain pen on the Sketchbook Moleskine, does it bleed a lot? I don't mind if the paper buckles a bit. I'm not sure about the Watercolour Moleskine, it's a few quid more and I don't like the shape.