Painting exercises

On my last year of graduation, i worked on a project in witch i intended to capture different types of human flesh, tones, textures, colors, shapes, etc, trough painting.

I started we these two exercises. They're rather small, aprox. 2² in, oil on paper.

enVide neFelibata's portrait comission #003.1

Gilding finished, much sweat for laying the entire gold leaf.

Now, on to the painting again...

enVide neFelibata's portrait comission #002

New stages of the painting.

Drawing. Red for the flesh, white for the gold leaf.