You have to think of everything backwards, because you look at the finished piece through the other side of the glass than you paint on. This means that if you paint one stroke over top of the other, it will be behind your first stroke. (If painting on canvas, it would be in front.)
The Background is finished, and the gold leaf has been applied. The whitish areas (hair and drapery) are still masked off. The skin area has had one translucent layer of dark blue applied (you are seeing through the glass to the cardboard in the brown areas of skin).
I fear that I may have gone too dark right away in the skin tones, but I have already scraped off and reworked the background, and feel as though I need to keep moving forward. This is my first time trying this technique, and it's not going to be perfect. I have to try out as many things as possible and let myself make mistakes in order to learn the intricacies of the style.
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