Practical research -Veiled Venus - the face

                                                                       The Face

  

Painting the face in and then adding the veil afterwards over the top of the underpainting seems to work well.

I took the same approach in the second face painting but used one of the abstract backgrounds to layer her over. I'm trying to bring in a chaotic nature element and have gone for greens in the background. 

    Is this trying too hard to bring in another element for consideration?

Green acrylic and oil paint on oil paper