drawing out subject in pencil on the canvas

I usually tell my students to draw the subject out directly on the canvas in pencil,

then you can spray-fix it. Here are two recent demos in the drawing stage:

madder lake

This painting allows me use my favorite color,
 madder lake.  Very hard to find, I get mine from 
Naturalpigments.com.
I may try making it myself eventually 
with their dry pigment.

some progress...

close-up

more glazing today...

portrait progress

Slow progress on this painting, glazing many
layers to get the right luminosity.

new portrait

This is a new compositional drawing
for a portrait. It will be on wood panel, probably
5-ply birch.

Bentley framed

My painting "Bentley" has a frame and is
up at the Lyme ArtAssociation in Old Lyme, CT