A New Project!

I am collaborating with a friend on a new project - he made the initial design and carved the wood, I am painting it (personally, I think I'm getting off easy but don't tell him). Here's a picture with the undercoat:

The black lining is fairly deep - deep enough that I had to use umpteen coats of spray primer to get the whole thing coated. Every time I thought I was finished, I picked it up and looked at a different angle and lo! Bare spots in the crevices. When that part was finally finished, I painted the raised areas in a few thin coats of white.

I'm not exactly sure of the color scheme, but I'm probably going for a more traditional Ganesha but I'll probably take the printouts I made and play around with come colored pencils for a while.