I did this painting recently during a figure painting class. Mostly we worked with nudes but this pose was with a costumed flamenco dancer. Here’s a link to a painting by the teacher, Charles Vinh, which was up in the gallery when we were taking the class… It was good to get instruction on painting on canvas – mostly I’ve worked on paper before… or on the computer, of course!
image (cc) 2010 Hilary Farmer
Green Tea Doodles 
Beautiful lighting!
Thanks Max! This was a bit difficult since the light source was mostly coming from behind the model and left much of her face in shadow.