you know....I like it better in this more colorless form.

That is a very interesting technique, I don't believe I have heard of it before.

This is beautifully done. :)

It's an old masters technique that was used regularly in the Renaissance.

Splendid work as usual. Nice to see the underlay.

The line "Rainy days and Mondays" is from a song but I can't remember which one and now it's bugging me... help!

I think I prefer this version for the mood it evokes when I think of rainy days and Mondays (not the song) but the other coloured version gives an entirely different feeling, as though she's looking out from her room rather than looking out while contemplating something introvertedly as in this black and white version.

"The line "Rainy days and Mondays" is from a song but I can't remember which one and now it's bugging me... help!"

It's the title of a song by the Carpenters. Go to http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1885455/ for further info.

Thank you! You and a friend of mine pointed this out to me at about the same time, but I've only just had chance to reply. The reason it was bugging me that I couldn't remember who it was by is that I'm actually a bit of a Carpenters fan, it's music that I grew up with.

I have been wondering how exactly you work. This provides some insight to that, I guess.

This is not how I paint most of my work. Just an occasional one.

Ah. Well, an interesting idea, never the less.

This art is wonderful...Very I love =^^=

Ohhh I've always wanted to see an underpainting.

That's just gorgeous; I had no idea that that was how you did it! I just thought you laid down base washes then just layered color over and over and then darks/shadows over that. I didn't realize you had a gray version beneath that you them laid translucent layers of color over and built up. That's amazing.

why do you do this underpainting? (I never tried out something like this so I don't know why it is good for)

Underpainting and glazing the colour on after gives a certain glow to the colours that I really like. And it's just darn fun:)

how do you do glazing? (My english isn't the best one, also for art-vocabulary ^^")

Glazing is many layers of very thin paint. You need to be able to see the underpainting through the paint. You have to take your time and let each layer dry as you paint it since you can easily pick up the paint again if it's still wet.

Oh, ok. Thanks for the information and your time^^

She's absolutely stunning! I'd love to learn to paint traditionally but I don't have the time.

The dress on her looks great, the detail is very nice.

I think i like the underpaint version better than the completed version. The drab tones seem to fit the rainy environment. More emotion is conveyed... But then, was that the emotion you were going for?