The woman’s casual pose and flowy, off-the-shoulder top gives this painting a relaxed feel. I painted it in a limited palette of titanium white, yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, and black. Amazingly, the mixture of ochre and black create the allusion of green with the absence of blue on my palette. The green appears more green with the warm, red skin tones contrasting next to it. The only color I left fully saturated is the fleshy pinks in her feet, elbow, ear and hand.