Hello Everyone, It has been a long time since my last blog post. Last October was the last time I posted anything, and at that time, I was working on finishing up a portrait of my Grandma and Grandpa Dillard. Since that time, I have been doing some drawings and practicing some portrait techniques. However, most of my artistic endeavors have been devoted to practicing acrylic painting and I want to share what I have been working on over the last couple of months. I started this paining using the truck drawing that I did last summer. I really liked the look of that drawing and wanted to do it in a Fall Color Scheme. In preparing for the painting, I also decided to change the background to see if I could create a little more depth. I started the painting by priming a 16”x20” stretched canvas with a light tan coating of acrylic paint. Then using a white charcoal pencil, I sketch in the rough layout of what I wanted to paint. Once I had a basic layout, I started with the sky and the