Grisaille with color

[Mari DeRuntz]

Here is a link to Tito's verdaccio underpainting thread.

From that thread, I pulled a comment from Karin Wells that foreshadows what is in fact happening as you proceed on this canvas:

You might find that your eyesockets are a bit dark even though they seem "balanced" now, they won't be later. Underpainting tends to be more about accurate halftones than the final balance between light and dark.

Do you see how the eyesockets are now too dark, lending the portrait a foreboding note the underpainting did not have.

This is not my usual method, so I'm learning along with you here...