Forgot to post the stages, wonderful class. Thank you.

Learning to work with oils, especially the brushwork and how to handle the multiple brushes has been a big challenge. I do enjoy mixing the colors. This is my first oil portrait. It's not really painterly, I am struggling to make little brushmarks and leaving the marks alone. I'm really enjoying the class and learning a lot.

Thanks Morgan, I think I learned a lot, especially about edges and also about the warm and cool tones which were applied towards the end of the process. The paint colours are more vibrant in real life. Struggled to get a good photo on an overcast winters day in Britain!

I'll post this again because I think it got lost in the replies of my last post. Here is the finished one. The color notes started to mess me up because at first they didnt match the underlying value. That started to create muddy colors everywhere because I tried to wipe/blend my mistakes. Also started to blend all around way too much and lost the mosaic feel it had before. Overlayed this with the reference photo and saw that the eyes are indeed one of the things that kills the likeness. But I will call this ready and will pay more attention to the drawing on the next one!

Painting With Color Finish