Just neutrals have been added. The drawing is starting to be a little more definite.

Now I've started to add the neutrals and to define Nathans portrait a little better. The form is carried by these neutrals.

More color has been added and I'm aiming at balancing the warms and cools before I start to put the neutrals in.

The colors are getting more vivid as I keep adding to what is already there trying to build up the paint surface. This is somewhat slow as the colors take a while to dry and I like working on dried or almost dry paint.

Well a lot has happened since the last post. I've been putting in color, not necessarily color seen but felt. The local color and the neutrals will be put in later. The forms seem stronger now which points up the fact that a change of color is always stronger than a change of tone.

Here is a final shot of the under painting. You can probably see I've started to add some color around the edges of the shapes.

This is the painting a little further along. This was taken around the middle of December 2007.