So I have begun a series of Stations of the Cross for the church. This is a major undertaking for a "part time" artist, as there are fourteen of them to do. While working on these I also have a few other projects going, such as painting icons to sell to raise money for church and other needs. So far I am about 3/4 of the way through the first one. The stations that I am doing are executed in egg tempera and will have 24K gold gilding in the background. The work involved in a project like this is massive for the "part timer", and is why it takes so long to do projects like this): - finding existing "stations" to base my design ideas on - doing preliminary sketches and studies until satisfied - buying wood panels, cutting them to size, sanding them, and painting the backs - mixing the traditional gesso, and gessoing the panels several times, sanding between coats - doing the final drawing on paper then transferring it to the panel - scoring the image into th