Alice painting; stage 1

Yes I'm painting with real brushes again.  I love digital but there is just really nothing like the feeling of working with a brush and real paint, on real canvas.

This image has a bit of history.  I drew it onto the canvas last year, probably around this time of year.  But I wasn't ready to paint it.  So I packed it up and took to New Orleans, but didn't paint it there either.  So back it came to New York with me, unpainted still.

Some combination of the days of rain and I don't know, I'm finally feeling it, here. 

This the underpainting.