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.

Here I've started the under painting using a mix of cobalt blue and cadmium red medium mixed with some Cremnitz white and thinned out with turpentine. The shapes are more distinct and its now clear how I've changed the design. The drawing that I did was more of a vertical and now the painting will be more of a horizontal.

On a 36"x42" linen canvas, I have put the drawing down with a pastel pencil and started to go over the main shapes with Veronese green oil color thinned with turpentine. I use the green color because it will still be visible even when I start putting in the underpainting.