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Thank you for all the encouragement. I will try to post the painting in progress as I go along.
It is an experimental piece for me, and I ought to have done a smaller piece! I am just about to get the idea of how to glaze. I am not a glaze painter, and this painting is not meant to be totally glazed either. I just want to glaze the skintones and the dress in certain areas because of the softness and subtlety of these areas. I think the glazing will show some of the underpainting through, hence enhances them. For other areas, I either scrumble or paint opaquely over them (highlights).
Thanks, Chris, for reminding me about value thumbnails. I learned about the value thumbnail from you in one of my very old postings. Ever since that post, I always bear in mind what you said about values, darks islands etc. and try to do thumbnails whenever I can and study them. So, for this painting, I did two sets of thumbnails: one to study values and the other for colours.
Because it was for underpainting purposes, I did not put the darks in too dark. The left of the background will be dark because light is coming from that direction. The lightest light will be the girl's face, and where her hands are. The middle value will be the cushions, dress around that area and the right side of the background, which will gradually gets darker as it comes down to the long cushion on the right, and ties in with the dark from the bottom right of her dress.
Thanks again, and I will keep everyone posted of the progress.
Mai
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