Mostly I’m focused on getting the proportions, layout, pose/attitude, final design figured out. I still have work to do on the lighting, final color in oil. it’s hard to color match & soften edges in acrylics the way it dries so fast. I’d like to try golden open if I ever have spare $$$ get 4 or 5 of my main colors I use.
FYI this painting is using Payne’s grey, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, White, & a tiny bit of Magenta.
That’s it. I love a limited palette.
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I had used metallic gold paint at first which looked good, then applied gold leaf to make the emergency blanket she is wearing, but it was hard to apply well and it didn’t seem to stick well enough, so didn’t look good, and I painted over in non metallic ochre oil paint. I might try to add metallic gold oil paint later.
I did a full under painting in acrylic.

Process pics of this piece.
Rough sketch to basic block in. Detail added in previous post (above in thread) which may be final, though I may still adjust a couple of things.
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Timelapse-time!

Oof, I had totally blocked out the desperate search for a pose that worked!

I think changing the head angle was the right call. Looked like it was one of those duck–rabbit illusions.

This is what it looked like when I blocked it in & took a pic. I had most of it pretty good, but mouth & nose a bit needed to move higher and ball cap peak needed more of an arc & forehead showing. At this point I’m not really looking for likeness at all. Just getting color and light & shadow in roughly the right places.