Transferred the drawing to a 12x12" canvas.
Outlined the main shapes with black and put in the darkest areas.
All acrylic so far.

The colors washed in and kept gray at this point.

The animated step by step demo...

It takes a special program to make 'animated GIFs'.
I found a good one for free!
http://www.benetonsoftware.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php

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Study for 'Huckleberry Picker'
~7x7"
Charcoal on paper

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The Cellist
12x16"
Acrylic on canvas
($1200)

...after the first session.

To see the changes from one stage to the next
here is a little animation.

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This is my first contribution to 'virtualpaintout'. The idea is each month a new city is chosen. Using Google Street View you poke around looking for something to paint. May is Paris. I spent so much time cruising the city it feels like I've been there!

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Seven Sisters
16x20"
Acrylic on Canvas

Beautiful color is what I had in mind for this. Old Holland Pthalo Blue, Aliz. Crim., Indian Yel. light, black and white. the first two are very strong while the yellow is very weak. I mixed a lot of gel medium into the strong ones which made them more manageable. I'm still working on this adjusting colors and values trying to perfect it, hoping not to ruin it.

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Found an old sketchbook the other day...

Emily in Sleep
Pen on paper

Postfall's Bridge
Pen on paper

Tree
Pencil on paper

Rider
Pencil on paper

Doll
Pen on paper

Globe
Pen on paper

Dorothy
Pen on paper

Rabbits
Pencil on paper

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Macarthur Lake
8x10"
Oil on canvas

Both of these with water mixable oils. And both on Sunday afternoon. We spent about three hours total. Very pleasant day, about 64 degrees, almost no wind, sunny. Here's Loi, she looks happy...

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Some are wondering how to get started drawing with charcoal and how I made the drawing below. I'm just learning these new techniques myself from Ray Balkwill's book 'Painting Landscapes with Atmosphere'. Minimal equipment needed:

4B pencil; felt-tip markers, fine and broad; Vine Charcoal, fat and thin;
Chamois; Stumps; Conte, black and white; Erasers, Extra Soft and kneaded;
Paper Towel. Not shown: sketch book, fingers and can of hair spray for fixative.

Sketch in the composition with the pencil leaving a border all around. Confirm the drawing with the fine felt tip darkening only essential key points you don't want to loose because all the pencil lines are going to disappear. With the broad felt tip fill in the darkest shapes. Rub the large vine charcoal over all the white area remaining. Gently smooth the charcoal with the Chamois to make a uniform middle gray. With the extra soft eraser remove charcoal in light areas. The kneaded eraser will bring back the white paper in the very lightest areas. The paper towel is for removing charcoal, blending, making marks and wiping fingers. The stumps are good for blending small areas. Then it's a matter of adding and removing charcoal, working back and forth until you're happy with the effect. I use the white Conte at the end for white lines and spots or even to make a black area white if needed. It's a very flexible, fluid and forgiving way to draw that is very much like painting...and it's fun!

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Charcoal, marker, white Conte on watercolor paper

Not really warm yet but, warmer and warm enough for blossoms to appear which has lead to these. Paintshop on the first; second PS and Painter X.

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Mechanical Pencil on Paper
Thanks to Michaelangelo

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~11x14"
Charcoal, marker, white conte

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