The photo of Gary's that I was using is 7" X 7" or thereabouts. I didn't have a square canvas and I didn't want to stretch my own this time, but I did have an old 18 X 14 canvas that I had somewhat painted out. So I decided to use it and use the middle 14 inches for the portrait. Word of warning here, most of the background was pretty dark so it can be kinda hard when first starting to get the right colors and values going. It is much easier to use a fresh canvas but I save my old paintings that I don't think are worth saving and paint over them.
I used a white pastel pencil and lightly penciled in the grid for guidelines. Some artists use tracing paper to do this, I like to work directly on the canvas. Using the grid gives you guidelines and makes the drawing go faster. A lot of the times I will just starting drawing with my paint.
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