Painting number 5

Lana and I have begun work on painting the whirly pop, it has been going very well so far. One day in on this, the surface of the panel was much more difficult to bring up to completion then the drawing or the under-layers. The sanding pad was getting gesso built up in it and wound up digging out little pits in the surface. Seeing as how it is not much fun sanding in the freezing cold we decided to bring it up to the studio and slake a layer of gesso over the surface and let it dry. Below is the current state, the background color is final and will look great with the finished painting candy even if it looks a little off right now.