Practice

Today's post reflects a multi-day effort creating my version of a portion of the painting titled 'Bianca' by William Holman Hunt dated 1868-69.

Day 1 - the sketch outline was completed
Day 2 - face shading and some shoulder ruffle shading was completed
Today - sketch was tweeked and piece was painted (except for face, neck, and top of chest)  

Tools used included mechanical pencil (HB core) for the sketching and acrylic paints.

Before painting anything, I decided to use acrylics thinking it would look better than watercolor.  Now after completing it--I know that was the right choice.  I'm very satisfied with the effort, have learned some things, and am feeling more brave in trying out new ways of working with paint to do garment shading.  That's a big step!