For the last day of the year 2006 I thought I'd do a big update. In the last two days, I've been able to get to the studio and put in several hours on my painting. Here we go.

It's difficult to see, but in this picture, I have painted the waterfall on the left and painted over Neptune on the bottom left because she will be coming out of the mist from the waterfall. I will overpaint parts of her to bring her out.

The next two pictures are the Planet Uranus as I begin to add color to his jacket and after he is filled in with color. Understand that this is just the under painting. All these characters will have more detail as the painting progresses.

Moving below the waterfall, here's a detail of Neptune as I'm beginning to bring her out of the "mist".

In the next photo, you can see the Moon between the waterfall and the rainbow has been filled in. "Moon" is not in the Moon yet. Jupiter has color in his guitar and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is gold.

There you have it as the year closes out. Still missing are the planets Saturn and Pluto. After they are placed, then I'll add the details and all the stars and nebulae.

Happy New Year!