I have added red. Now I will go back and add more light / highlight and shadow... since I didn't start with black and white, it appears some of my shadows (blues) are disappearing. I've already added a blue glaze to the trim on the door. I want to bring out the detail with the next layer that was showing better in the first sketch. Also, it is my plan to tone down the red on the face. I do like that the painting is being to show the translucent quality that actual skin has. I just have to get the tones right with more layers. I will continue avoiding any opaque color, but just use glazes. There is a time and a place for paintings with the impasto technique, but this is not one. I want to give a three dimensional quality to the painting without it actually being three dimensional. Hopefully if I achieve this, you will not look outward like you would at a textured tapestry or at thick brush strokes of other paintings but instead look inward, into the painting and through the layers.
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