Progress, Frida, and Some More Sketchbook Stuff

Currently working on this for a composition class; it's slow and frustrating, but it's headed in the right direction. Gouache on canvas.

I am continuing to draw inspiration from Frida Kahlo, which led me to do these colored pencil and gouache portraits:

And, here are a few recent samples from my neverending sketchbook. Someday I plan to compile all the artwork I've done based on screenshots from Vera Chytilová's 1966 film Daisies. 

(all images copyright Amanda Russel,  2011)