I have made more progress on the bride portrait I am currently working on. Firstly, I put down an under painting over the skin areas. I used a mixture of raw umber and white which will work great as a base for adding skin tones at a later stage. Today, I spent most of the day working on the background. I wanted to do this before adding skin tones as the background colours will effect how skin colours are appearing in the portrait. Photographs of the two steps are below. Tomorrow, I will be working mostly on the bride and her dress.
