progressive painting.

this is my first oil painting. we were working from a model over six class periods. the prescribed style of painting changed over the course of each class period eventually ending in cubism. i had never really understood cubism in looking at cubist pieces nor had i liked them. i still don't like them but after spending hours meticulously trying to represent a person in a space very realistically and then breaking the space into cubist planes it made a lot of sense. maybe it was the mathematical side of my brain but for some reason it appears to be a very logical way to divide a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. this made so much sense that i began dreaming in cubism during the period i was working on this piece. it stands at 50"x40" with mixed media collage over oil.
these are the images of the progression over about a month: