binding stone painting (idk what to call it yet)

 decided to paint one of the binding pics i took!!

Started doing it in acrylic as I already have another oil painting on the go of archangel michael ..

I started by staining the paper this orange brown colour, as I wanted to do it in a greyscale blue kinda colour.

Was rlly annoying me bc it looked so off and i couldnt work out why. Also was finding it frustrating trying to work with acrylic as it was drying and i wanted to be able to blend bits. tHis is when i decided I was going to spend the rest of the day using acrylic to do a solid underpainting/kinda and then start using oils the next day. I wanted the kind of Grisaille effect you got from using burnt siena anyway. I was worried the siena was going to make it look too warm as ~I wanted a more cool grey tones goin on, but decided since siena is a type of underpainting anyway, if i didnt like it i could go over it again with bluer n cooler grays.

Using oils went well but it was still so annoying for a while so i had to keep reworking.

Got this stage and was sooo much happier, finally got everything looking ok and one more session to do the details an make it look so sweeeet then ill b done.