Emma's Roses

I am showing the sequence of stages that this painting took as it developed.  After drawing the main layout from a photo, I masked some highlights in the hair and the main flower.

I applied a very watery golden wash to the entire paper and let it dry.  Then I added some more masking to save some of the yellow background color in her hair.

I began to lay in the main skin tones.







                                                                                                       



The second photo shows laying in  ore mid tones for the dress, hair and flowers.


I was able to remove the masking after this stage as I was finished with large areas and ready to focus on only the details.
















Finally I added the necessary darks to her hair, flowers and foliage and some shadows.