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Grinder is now more or less done...   now - on to the cabinet...

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The drawer and knob are now colored - the knob with sepia, then red earth, then burnt umber, w/white along the lit edge...   the drawer door is burnt umber, again w/white along the lit edges...

 Doing the grinder box, in progress, showing how the burnt umber is laid...

 and here is the completed layering...

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And the grisaille is finished...  now to get on with getting all into 'living color'...

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Moving along, am in the process of doing the back wall - the area below the shelf is grisailled, and am on the section above the shelf...  then will continue with finishing the cabinet doors...

  and the wall grisaille is finished...   now for the remaining door...

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And the shelf is done...  maybe will add the white highlights later, when all else is also done...

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A wee further along in coloring the stone shelf... can now better see how it will look...  from now on, will go ahead and finish the sepia layer, then each of the others in turn, until the whole shelf looks like on the left...  then will add some white where there are highlights...

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In doing the coloring, the first is the sepia...  then - seen in the far left - comes F W flesh, lemon yellow, and red earth...

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And the left door is now grisailled...  so - on to the other one...

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Got some more wood grain down, despite the somewhat bent nib end [the tips are still together, so the flow runs, but the slight bentness means a more spongy or springy response to laying the ink, necessitating more care and less strong intensity in the color as consequence, meaning more laying over to darken - which can be good, or just more work, depending]...  curling the pen helps, tho the edge being a long thin nib means more likelihood of cutting into the board if turned too much to the side use, as well as more possibility of spreading the nib tips apart if too readily applied - again meaning more care in using...

 and managed some more...   while my hand requires much in the way of frequent rests, is possible might get the rest in by end of the day...   will see...  at the least be done the next day, and the other door begun...

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Slowly getting the left door wood grain down, going slower than had thought would be the case, but still progressing steadily...

 A bit of a close-up here, showing more the stroking done with the pen...  to get an idea of proper size, the knobs of the doors are done circling a penny...