A-to-Z blog challenge: Step O - action steps (part 2: outline)

 I am now ready to start on the painting. If I want a dark background, I paint it and then use chalk to draw the outline. If I want a light background, I will use a graphite pencil, usually 2B, to draw the outline.

The outline itself can be tricky because the painting is based on another painting. Since my competition painting surface is larger than the original, I taped several sheets of drawing paper together and trimmed it to the same size as the panel.

Using the thumbnails (See Step I) and too...