QP reversed Painting the highlights with a dark BG

is slower.  I am also having trouble making the aquaintance of fresh subjects.  After rather icy treatment by the "cocktail waitress" at Miss Lilly's Cafe, I am now back at the friendly Bean Counter Cafe.

So, here is the QP-du jour - moi as usual these days and again pushing the funvelope.  Dark BG's definately take longer and this one too 1.5 hours.  By setting the colour-space settings in Painter to AdobeRGB instead of my Huey calibration, I get a more acurate paint colour.  It is still a bit washed out though.
I am still concerned with maintaining likeness - miles to go on that road . . . .