Getting Started

I have two commissions lined up for the same client and although I haven’t laid paint to canvas yet, a lot of work has already gone into them. I have done two photo shoots, had the carpenter (who we suspect is a drug addict because he keeps weird hours and is hard to track down, but he does good work, so…) make the frames to my specifications, stretched the canvas, gessoed them, and drawn my reference grids. And here we go with the underpainting…