Seafront Twilight - stage 1

This will be my first painting on canvas....I have packed bubble wrap into the back of the stretcher to lessen the way the canvas goes away from you when you press a brush onto it as I am used to hard surfaces to paint on. I liked the way that the paint went onto the canvas board in the previous painting so I am seeing how I get on with stretched canvas. As you can see, after my initial "drawing" with Burnt Sienna which I left to dry for a few hours, I have blocked in some transparent colour with added Liquin to get rid of the white and to produce a tonal underpainting. I then ran a dry 1 1/2" household paintbrush across all of it apart from the brick walls which I want to have a nice texture. I will be away in Cornwall for a couple of days from tomorrow so I will have to wait until Wednesday before I can get on to the next stage.