This is a walkthrough of an olipromy my painting session on canvas in oil using a medium of five parts turpentine, one part stand oil. The portrait was painted in about two hours. I start with a loose sketch, mostly thin with turpentine, a little bit of medium. After the sketch, I begin blocking in the solid flesh areas outside the shadows, as well as adding some local color and working on the accents and eyes, nose, mouth, hair, eyebrows, etc. Here, I'm basically just strengthening those things and the drawing as well as making sure my edges are right. Here's a little more blending, the addition of some highlights and I worked on the arms a more. Here the highlights are stronger, some local colors added to the eyes, blues, some more rows in the cheeks to give it a little more life, correcting some of the drawing on the face. Hairmating even more local colors, some yellow on the throat, more blue reflected light on the hand. Here as well, more transition color in the hair, between the hair and the flesh and darkening all the hair down. Here in the final stage of this painting, all the hair highlights are done, transitions between the flesh and hair colors are finished. A lot of the sharpening and softening of various forms make them come forward and go back such as the thumb, piece of hair in front of the chin area, and like the forward eye are all finally corrected and tuned in. Thanks for watching and visit Craig Elliott Gallery dot com when you have a chance.