Process of a Mixed Media Painting

I found that many of you like seeing the process of my paintings. Here is one that is part of my Transformations series:

Quick oil sketch

some detail added

more oil painting and scraping

added encaustic medium covering the whole painting, and chan butterflies and back ground

I didn't feel the orange was right and changed the back ground, eyes and butterfly to blue and took out the butterfly in her hair. It is framed with a simple black wood frame.

Progress of an Oil Painting

I have started and reworked 3 paintings. I want to keep the brush strokes loose and avoid blending and smoothing of the paint. None of them are close to finished.

Process of a New Painting

Do you remember the painting that I destroyed? I scraped off as much encaustic as possible and covered it as well as I could with milk paint, and started a new one.

Here is the process of the last several days:

You can see the ghost of the other painting

ink wash on milk paint

Iwill make some corrections on the drawing and I can start putting on the layers of encaustic