Remember and Inspire.

I don't always do an underpainting like this, but it often helps to get the lights and darks established. At this stage it's easier to adjust the composition and values than it would be if I just jumped into the colors with both feet... no pun intended. By the way, these are my actual working shoes that I wear to paint murals in, as evidenced by the junk sticking to the bottoms. I threw them off when I got home from a mural project in Ohio yesterday. They landed pretty much like this. Some things just beg to be painted!