Masking the back of the dress

 I went over all the pattern on the back of her skirt with masking fluid, it took a pretty long time but at least I'm nearly done drawing over that pattern...I've probably drawing over it 4 or 5 times now, never mind all the times to test colours, from tracing it back and forth But it's nearly done and then I can ignore it.
I used alizarin crimson with some permanent magenta in the shadowed arias for most of it. The flower petals are permanent magenta again this time with a bit of indigo in the shadows. I also used quinacridone sienna (I hate how long that word is in comparison to how many time's I've had to write it in a tiny space, why can't paints have shorter names?) for the flower centers on the front.


So not much progression in this post but from this point on everything starts to move much faster....and I'm still not back in my flat to work on it so I'll drag out this buffer of content as long as I can. :P

I decided to leave the background as it is for now, I want to make sure I don't add too much detail and saturation to it since it might start to take your attention away from her. I don't think it will but I'll wait till the end to see how it looks before I do anything else to it.