How I Begin a Portrait Painting

I will be teaching a portrait workshop Aug. 10 so I have been painting lots of portraits.  Here is one portrait I am working on and I took a few photos as I went along.  I will share the final painting when it is finished.

I used tracing paper to add the drawing to the canvas.
You also can cover the back of the picture with pencil scribbling
to use as tracing paper.  It works great.

I carefully put a green wash
on the drawing and began
putting in my darks.

I began establishing my darks using my pencil..