Large Scale Painting

     Here is the beginning of posts.  But the start of the painting will end up being last...so please scroll through.   I start by spending about a week working on the still life itself...sketching...trying to figure out what I want.   I am working on a 36X24 which isn't that oversize.. but it will give me something to demo with.  Here is the picture which usually gets printed out in black and white and then I work entirely from life and the sketches.  Then I begin with my underpainting.  Once I sketch, I throw the pictures away and work entirely from life.  I like drawing it upside down... Keeps the brain out of the way.  I also like to put down really hot colors to start....