"Prairie Duneland Trail"
Sponsored by the City of Portage.

THE PROCESS

• After the image has been drawn onto the canvas, I began painting in the upper left corner.

• I then worked across the top and to the left corner of the canvas.

• As you can see, I worked left to right, top to bottom.

• When the entire image was painted, I began filling in the letters.

• I painted in the letters
  one or two colors per
  day allowing a day or two
  in-between to allow the
  paint to dry completely.

• The last thing I painted in were the border colors One color per day.

• After the entire canvas was filled with color, I returned to the main image and adjusted the lights and darks using transparencies. When I was satisfied with what I considered to be the finished painting, I lived with it a week or so (a deadline shortens this wait) and then signed the finished work. I should mention that the process that I have described is unique to this particular project.