Reference material
Every painting starts with as much reference material that I can
find. Sometimes I use photographs and drawings of different things
to make up a picture  for a painting.  Then put most of them
together in a sketch to get the right composition that looks good to
me. Other times, I just king of wing it.  I do not use anything, just
start sketching on the canvas and see what happens.
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