studio painting in the works

started working on a new studio painting, here's some beginnings… and then some studies of the subject & muse, Renata:

(grisaille early stage…)

(UPDATE: filling the figure out before background...)

 Coming up for Air is a tenative title... w/ graphite figure study; would it be lame to include fish or squids? lol...

 At Rest #1 (study), oil

At Rest #2