For the past couple of weeks I have been stressing and stressing over the horse painting feeling that I've been going round in circles.  So yesterday  I decided to take a photo to compare with the one I took 2 weeks ago.  I was stunned (and secretly very chuffed) at how it's coming on.  Still another good week till it'll be finished , eye, cheek bones, mane, top of head coller and buckle, whiskers but the difference is amazing.  The photos also give a great example how adding the blue washes to the headcollar have made it seem more "real".  Eureka! it worked.