More Progress on the Tar & Feather painting

Ok, now I've finished with the sketch...well, almost. You see, I still want to add another figure behind the man on the far right. If you look closely I've roughly drawn in his gesture. I just haven't been able to get the last guy into my studio to pose so I can get that figure into the painting. But the rest of the sketch is done and now I'm going to wipe a wash of color across the entire canvas. I might just do that now and add that extra figure in later so I can get started laying in color.

And just as a side note, I have also been working on the portrait of the pastry chef during this time. I really enjoy painting in all the detail of the background. I'll post a pic of it soon.