Life Painting

We started a two week pose in life drawing this morning.  We mixed a range of 5 tones using only primary colours -- no earth tones from tubes.  It was all about tone today and NOT hue (accurate colour).  The teacher said that I could now be confident that I'm seeing accurately and start to use more paint.  On this image she said that I had placed the model in the space well with the linked tones.  And it's clear she's sitting on a chair.  That was the main goal for this week.  Next week we will continue with the same painting -- not to add colour but to work more on the tonal shifts, refining how to show depth and etc.  The teacher mentioned my previous teacher and how they have different methods.  He uses the Old Master palette and earth tones to "umber it down" -- while she uses complementary colour mixing.