Regulars will have noted another two week gap between the last Painting Challenge update and today. I went to Paris for a week, and was regrettably too busy climbing the Eiffel Tower, visiting the Louvre & Orsay galleries, and wondering why my new yellow jacket brought me so much attention to have time for the usual weekly update.

No matter: means today’s update is nice and big, or grand as us Francophiles say. In no particular order we have:

Chris Stoesen sends in a large and varied collection of entries, particularly featuring fences
Andy Duffell’s been painting the Po-Po
A few undead from Travis
The long and winding road, 108 inches of it, from Jon Yuengling
I may have been to Paris, but Carole’s returned to renaissance Italy
Planes, Indians and Ancients from Ken
The Hodgemeister has been at the WW2 6mm again
John Haines has split his time between Portugal and Japan
How appropriate: trenches from Sapper
Lloyd continues to add to his already sizeable ACW collection
Mr Helliwell joins me at Versailles, and then whizzes off to the American War of Independence
Mark Luther fills in many of his pictorial gaps, and adds a whole load of Sugar Island terrain
And last, but certainly not least, in any sense of the words, is Mr Slade, with some fighters, some civilians and a doggy!