Almost finished Ecstasy now – I’ve added shading around all the creases and folds using brown & chestnut red pastels, as well as into the cracks coming up from the stone base. Lips and nails were painted with a dark scarlet and the eyeshadow was applied using mid and dark grey pastel.

The only thing left to do now is repair and paint the nameplate moulded into the base. This suffers the same problem of a multitude of pinholes. I should have tackled these at the same time, but they are much more fiddly due to the raised lettering. So now I have the even more fiddly task of repairing them without damaging the rest of the paintwork…