I started the final painting (18" x 24") with the intention of exaggerating the abstract land-scape quality that the 4th study ended up having. I think that the final painting reads pretty well, in my pallet knife marks I tried to follow the contours of the plastic, paper, and fabric, but also accent the parts of the model that resembled a landscape.
I realized that in the cropping the composition of my model, I lost most of the translucent and transparent elements -- one of the challenges in this assignment was to have your model include something transparent, something translucent, and something opaque. So, since these vital elements were cropped out in the final composition, I found a way to include them as an illusion on the surface of the painting. I utilized the strips of cheesecloth that were attached to the canvas and painted them to look as if they were on top of the painting, making some look see-through and some look tinted and translucent. I did this through painting the model differently in each strip of cheese cloth, where some have the true color and others have off color.
Here's the progression of the painting, starting with the blue and burnt sienna under painting:
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