Step 4

I've covered nearly all of the canvas, now comes the hard part. Refining and modeling light and dark, deciding whether colors are on the cool or warm side, too light, too dark, correcting contours, determining flesh mixtures in light and shade, etc.

Step 3

More color.

Casting Long Shadows--oil, 8.5x11"

Location: just outside of Athens, Texas, started onsite last October.

Step 2

Beginning to add color.

Step 1--oil, 40x20"

I will be posting the progress of this painting of my daughter. Here I've drawn the outline on a canvas toned with Vermilion, and the darker areas are painted in with Burnt Sienna. This full length painting is the largest one I've done in a while.

Yvonne--charcoal, 14x11"

NFS

A quickly done charcoal study from life.

After Sargent--oil, 10x8"

I copied this head done by John Singer Sargent from a book. It was done as a demonstration of transferring a photo to a canvas using the graph method.