Sweet surrender - step I... Getting my hands dirty!

This is my first attempt at integrating chimney soot in my painting process...

I washed some transparent colors over this base before proceeding with thicker paint in selected areas.

 In the finalization of this one, my intent is not to lose too much fuzziness while going for some textural effects. This is likely to be a trial and error process!

Note to self: "I still need to master that barbaric medium when it comes to shades of grey!"