So the piece titled Ghost Walkin' has been sitting around my house for a long time. I always knew I wanted to add ghosts to it but the originals looked more like the ghosts in Spirited Away than the sheet ghosts I eventually went with. My first stab at the project was a failure. I almost always forget my process and jump into a painting head first then end up messing it up. So I went straight for acrylics and hated the results. After expressing my failure to my wife, she suggested that I just start over. Which I did. I usually do an underpainting in burnt sienna. Next, I tried to establish the color of the ghosts before I blended it in with the background. As you can see I went with a bluish grey tone. Stark white would have looked too bright as this piece not only had a more subtle palate but it also had some sun damage. Once I got a handle on the color of the ghosts, now it was time to blend them into the painting. This is a two step process. First I added some w