Further Developments. I really love the surface I created with this work. I used large brush strokes, scraping, and drips. I liked the figure outline but I still wanted the background to show through. So I decided to do a transparent white layer over the face and hoped to add some detail to the face, more to suggest the features. I ended up not adding any detail, I couldn’t find the courage and the fear of ruining the painting did take over but I feel that the details in the face should be brought out with lots of line work. This painting became very hard for me to finish. The face and I weren’t really getting along. I struggled with creating the features, I liked the abstract ideas and the whole motion blur of the features, but as I tried to add the layers, it wasn’t being executed how I wanted. I started adding to the background more and more, the drips of blue to help tie in the work.
