Starting the Final Piece

This afternoon i decided to start my final piece, choosing to use the whole A1 mount card, which turned out to be mistake!!!!!
I started by defining the black areas....


Then using orange mixed with a burnt sienna lightly started to define the tone...

Then as instructed, and having done previous attempts with the test pieces, began to build up the colour, then it just started going downhill.

I don't know whether this was because i was tired but the picture as a whole i felt just wasn't working on the A1 scale and every subsequent mark i made, just made it look worse.

And sooooo having documented with photographs, the evidence of this attempt, i decided to turn over the mount card, prime it ready to REDUCE the scale to A2 for tomorrow attempts.
Don't get me wrong there were some lovely areas with the carcass area like this pictured below, but as a WHOLE painting it just looked awful. I guess that it was a case of trying the scale to know it wasn't right, so i can only learn from this experience.