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Hi, Jeff.
Carl Samson's head study this weekend serves well to describe the process. He wanted to paint the head at its actual size so he placed the canvas right next to it at about the middle of the head's depth. He had his palette at about 8 feet from that arrangement and from that point he would look at the canvas and the subject side by side. He then would approach the canvas, make a mark and walk back to the palette.
In my case I wanted the composition fit my 18" x 24" canvas, so I positioned the canvas at a point where, from a distance, I could see the model fit the canvas size. You need to look at it from afar to see the drawing clearly. Therein lies the tricky beauty of this deal. The sitter's mother got pictures of me painting. If I get one I'll post it.
Incidentally, I recently saw a thread in this forum dealing with the sight size method. I didn't read it in its entirety but I will.
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