Heres a deviation.... because the paintings do not go well.
Not quite true. Woke with a clear resolution of one and implemented it; disaster. But in trying to correct, found some tricks. Was using my fave transluscent shiny paint and in rubbing off the reddish one overpainted with shiny pale blue which gave a curious metalic finish. All wrong however, but in getting rid of that found the transluscent paynes grey and rippled over the lot, picking out details in ivory black. Well, we'll see how it all dries.
So, why bother? The resolution of problems brings pleasure.
Is the pleasure proportionate to the difficulty of the problem?
All problems are unsolvable until they are resolved and then they are trivial (can't remember who said that, a mathematician I thnk - but yup, right)