Match game continued

These are the steps...  First, outlining some contours prior to taping:

 

 

Painting the background with various areas taped off...

 

 

Some seepage under the tape has occurred, per usual...

 

 

I scrubbed off some of the black seepage, but there are still plenty of fix-ups left to do.  Watercolor basically gives you one and a half chances to get it right.

 

 

Darkening all those feathers and matches will keep me busy for at least a few more days.  Thanks for looking in!

Match point

Still painting a lot of safety matches.  I want to get the foreground objects rendered at least lightly, so the pencil lines don't get pulled off when I mask everything to paint the dark background.  Because the thick watercolor mix I use for that has to go on in one pass, everything else will get the maximum tape treatment.

Okay, some shadows...