Wow, does this look ugly! The under layer of a handmade paper isn’t much to write home about.Here, the basic composition is being planned out.Note the grids that separate each section of the painting.I use red china marker for the larger squares (the painting is 40 x 20 inches, the red marker divides the painting into 10 inch sections, four sections horizontally and two sections vertically).I use green marker to divide the red sections in half (in this case every five inches) and brown marker to divide the sections into quarters.I match this grid pattern on the original photograph on a sliding scale and color for color.The green line that moves across the painting horizontally is where the water line will go.
