I am using apprentices for the first time in order to speed up work (and secondarily teach the apprentices how to paint). We are trying our best to employ and train apprentices only from Olongapo, Zambales, Pampanga, and Bataan.

We have been painting for only three weeks now, and we have covered a lot of ground.

Employing apprentices means, to me, that:

--I can incorporate intricate, bravura passages in the works without getting stressed.
--I don't have to clean up afterward. The apprentices do so.

We are currently working on four huge panels for the front office.

We are doing the dining halls next--nine huge panels there.

Afterward, we are to make smaller paintings for each cottage. There are 20 cottages. Every cottage has four chalets--240 smaller paintings there.

The grand total is 253 as of now. Unless they add more paintings to the Honeymoon Suite, the Eagle Function Room, and the ferry terminal.

Granting that I remain alive and healthy enough to see the project through.