This was less painful than I expected :-)) Nearly done, I just need to take a break and come back to it in a day or two. I have a feeling I made myself look like a leper but I'm not quite sure why. Maybe it's because I didn't really know what I was doing and I kept poking the painting with a teeny tiny brush with every single color of the rainbow for hours to no end.
The pic was taken indoors and it doesn't really show the proper colors and contrast (the background color is  bright turquise for example). I'll try to take a better picture when the painting is finished.