Just an update on how the Mammoth painting is going...I am repositioning the tusks, as you can see with my rough underpainting.  He is looking a bit bow-legged as I am refiguring his body.  Yes, I know his legs go too far up! Remember the process is a creative one!  (Kind of reminds me of one of hubby's uncles, who used to wear his pants up to his chin)  I have enlarged his ears, and I am now trying to reposition his body to the left.  I am already happier with the results.  Tomorrow I will lower the horizon line, as I think it is competing with the ears.  Hubby has made me a moll stick, which is rather like a drawing bridge, to help me.  The stick is about 30" long, with a ball at the end.  I can lean it across the painting and steady my hand on it.  It will really help when I start working the details of this huge piece!  It is slow going right now, but once I get comfortable with the position of the underpainting, the rest will fly by!  By the way, just because I wasn't sure what I was painting was a mammoth or a mastadon, I went back to do some research again (it has been 3 years since I started this painting!) and the differences between the two are unmistakable.  This is definitely a Wooly Mammoth from the Siberian Tundra area.  The mountain range behind is an actual place in Siberia, and the designs that I am carving into the tusks are from early native folklore.  Hope to have much more done when I check back in!