# Retired to Create

> Photography and oil paintings by Jerry Smith


## Posts

- [WIP - Zen Passage Color Update](https://retiredtocreate.com/wip-zen-passage-color-update/): I had to make a few additional drawing corrections and wait for the layer to dry fully before beginning the color layers.
- [Zen Passage - WIP Underpainting Completed](https://retiredtocreate.com/zen-passage-wip-underpainting-completed/): I completed the underpainting and will make any necessary corrections in the color layers.
- [Zen Passage - WIP Underpainting Almost Finished](https://retiredtocreate.com/zen-passage-wip-underpainting-finished/): I completed most of the underpainting and will soon start adding color to this using oils.
- [Zen Passage Rework - WIP](https://retiredtocreate.com/zen-passage-wip/): I had to redo the underpainting because I had used two different blacks, warm ivory black and cool carbon black.
- [Through The Zen Passage - Update underpainting block in.](https://retiredtocreate.com/through-the-zen-passage-update/): This is the underpainting block-in done with acrylics. I’ll complete this as the first stage and later glaze and refine over it using oils.
- [Through the Zen Passage](https://retiredtocreate.com/stepping-through-the-zen-passage/): Currently on my easel, I’m working on an acrylic underpainting, laying down the foundational tones and shapes to guide the layers that will follow.
- [Place For Two](https://retiredtocreate.com/place-for-two/): Currently on the easel working on a color version.

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