Thanks guys... really do appriciate the honesty here...
Xzotic... yeah the first one was all about spraying paint everywhere which I did very well - paint was literally fying around everywhere except were it was supposed to go lol... hey I had fun doing it...
I found the dots to be relitively easy to do and I am quite please with those that is why I had not posted pics up of them... what I did find is that I tend to get from time to time is that with the dagger strokes I get a bit of fuzz on the lines - like a small amount of overspray - I think this could be because of a couple of things I am doing or not doing.. I am applying too much paint and not moving the brush fast enough and may have the brush too close to the paper? is this correct... trying to work out how fast to move the brush or rather my hand is tricky stuff.