I am working on a rather large canvas painting.   Its a commissioned piece of artwork.   Here's the sketch I did to show the client.  The painting is 48 inches high by 36 inches wide and its going to be an acrylic on canvas.

After sketch approval I transfered the image onto the canvas by penciling it in.  Then I always work from the background to the foreground.   So I mask off the areas I do not want to have paint on and begin.

Looking pretty good at this point so I start to paint in some of the palm leaves.

After I get the background palm leaves done I remove the masking agent to expose the foreground elements of the compostion.

So this is where I am now.  I have some work to do on the very bottom of the piece before I can start on the foreground palm leaves.