Step by step, the birth of a great painting.

Its time to get technical and boaring on this blogg. A guide to painting like me. Ive never gotten anything out of guides like this, but I really enjoy watching Crawshaws peacefull programs about watercollorpaintings of nature.. A program like that about my paintings would probably have been unbearable, but here it is in four pictures, not so much about what goes on on the side, with the drinking, redneckmusic and old weirdomovies.
This is painted on wood, so the first thing I do is to put on a light green foundation. Then I use paintmarkers to draw the figures and situations onto the wood. The have all been drawn up with a pencil on paper first and I look carefully at those drawings all the time while marking them onto the wood.
In the next step I paint the background blue, then I jazz it up with some spraypaint to add some confusion to that part of the picture.
From there, in step 3 I fill inn all the figures colors with acrylics. This takes a good deal of time, but its still the part I enjoy the most.Mixing colors and letting the brush dance along makes you feel like a real artist somehow.
Then its on to the final part, where it all become clear. I use a black posca paintmarker to draw all the lines and the figures come to life.

When all this is done the picture is ready to be put away in my storage after a picture is taken and put out on this blogg to impress my handfull of followers. The circle of life goes on and on...