Remains, traces and a hell of a lot of masking tape!

After realising my work hasn't made sense I've been frantically scribbling in my sketchbook to make it work! And finally I've started to feel motivated again. So I've spent the day painting this portrait to pull the masking tape off of it to leave a blank negative space behind. Here's the results of today's work:

The nose needs work with the bridge being far too strange.. and the eyes aren't great but this is just a starting point so  can develop the idea and work with it to create something really interesting! I'll let you know how it goes.

Alistair