Imprimatura & drawing	Shadow study
Grisaille & color	White arrows: Being a real virtuoso Rubens usually skipped "dead" grisaille layer (shown on the neck and the shoulder) incorporating it partially in the next one. Green arrow: flesh color looks flat on this stage without glazes and highlights. Around the left eyelid you can see imprimatura and umber shadows glowing through the flesh colors.
Burnt Umber  of Shadow Study and Imprimatura are glowing through the upper layers.	Shadow Study and Imprimatura are left almost untouched above the temple. Blue reflection on the jaw (from the sky on the background) was done during Live Color Stage.
Finished painting	Bluish Half-Tones of skipped by Rubes "dead layer" are masterfully  mixed in the "live color layers".

Early Years

The artist that we know as Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, located in Andalusia region of Spain, on 25 October 1881 and baptized as Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María delos Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad, which represents a long list of saints and various relatives that family wanted to honor. According to Spanish law, parents’ last names were also added: Ruiz (father) & Picasso (mother). Practically, only first and last part of the full artist’s name are known to the world - Pablo Picasso...