Started years ago, the "Wizard" has been on the back burner.
Now it's nearly finished:



These are some older shots of the "Wizard":


My first rough sketch.  24 February 2016


Basic characters and background painted.  28 November 2016

And here's the recent progress:


Added shadows to clothing for 3D effect.  3 March 2022
Note that in the interim I added grass, vines, door hinges
and decorations, iron work, and small gargoyles on balls.


Added necks, hands and baby's hat and changed the doll.
11 March 2022


Added face underpainting and gold on buckles and box.
3 April 2022


Added detail to face underpainting (still not finished).
31 May 2022


Added earring and sash waist to wizard, changed girl's hat
and hair and added dimension to face underpainting and
clothing.   17 June 2022


Added more dimension to face underpainting and clothing.
More to do on these.   23 July 2022


Added eyelashes and more dimension to faces, dragon on
fence, staff on door, lips on girl and highlight and shadows
around man's sword.  Repainted girl's hair and doll's face. 

Renamed painting,
"The Wizard Gives The Gypsies A Dragon's Egg
And Commands Them To Give It To Their Mute
Daughter As She Is The Only One Who Knows
How To Take Care Of It." 

This work is not finished yet: I still need to make
corrections and add details in many places and the
paint needs to dry so I can add more gold leaf.
12 August 2022


Finished faces.  Added shadows to door hinges and
wizard's belt.  Decided against more gold leaf. 
Need to remove a few sketch lines and varnish the canvas.
18 August 2022