Yesterday, I had a little bit of time to do some painting, and I grabbed at the chance. I set up the easel outside, and did a "quick" oil-painting sketch of the house. This is the stage where you get the main form down, and a sense of the lights and darks in the painting. This stage is called the underpainting, and is unfinished. It takes 5 minutes to an hour plus to get this down on canvas, depending on how rusty your drawing skills are and how long it takes the creative juices to start flowing. For me, this took an hour and a half, since for the first hour and 20 minutes I insisted on painting rather awful schwack.
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