Fleshing Out

Today i set myself the task of completing mapping out my 4th painting and to finish another one. I managed to get one half way to completion. I have used a blueygreen background in the end though it is mostly blue and a steely blue colour. I really love this colour as the background, i think once the paintings are all completed it will really make it striking.
To begin with, i applied heavy paint to the top half of the background and figure because i wanted enough paint there to blur the face of the model with. The bluring is to represent the female losing her identity and only showing her as a bodily obsessed figure in a mass society. She has no identity other than the representation of her body. Although i am not sure how successfully I will be in applying this idea to the portrait painting of the woman pulling her face. I think that maybe a bit difficult because its so close up to her face. I may have her face more in focus but just fuzzy. Not as wiped out as she is going to be in the other 3 paintings. I quite like both of the stages of my painting so far, before i blurred it and after. Before i did, the painting looks really vibrant and expressive though iv really imagined them having this fading affect. So once i have got all the paintings to the same stage i will see what they all look like with the bluring and may work back into it.