Profile Self--oil, 9x12"

According to the Angel Academy of Florence, Rembrandt's approach to making a painting is thus:

1. Cover the canvas with a thin coat of greyed golden-brown paint (the field or unifying color).

2. Paint the darks of the subject with a darker version of the field color. There are now three values. 

3. The darks are elaborated.

This is the stage at which I am at here