I've had my week painting without children being in school, and I've got the main features almost finished (only the flippers on the mermaid to paint silver over) and this is what they look like:

 

I'll be moving on to the smaller fish some time next week, but it's going to get a lot harder as the children will be back in on Monday and so I will have to work around that, but hopefully it'll be finished before Christmas...?