Rough Paint
I collapsed the layers and quickly painted in all the main elements with a grainy bristle brush, working at about 25% zoom level so the entire picture fits on screen. The pencil work and the toned canvas are absorbed by the brushwork, but the shadow cast on the wall is kept on a separate layer so I can fine tune it later.
Modeling and Detail
I continued modeling the forms, adding detail, and closing in on the final color and lighting scheme. I don't work the whole picture to the same level of detail here, but just enough of it to establish the scene. Working too much of the picture at this point wastes time because that just means more elements I'll have to readjust later as I continue homing in on the final scheme. But working too little of the picture means there won't be enough information to establish the scene strongly enough.
Final Composition, Light and Color
I felt the image wasn't integrating well with the white page, so I refined the composition to address this. The music stand breaks deeply into the white area, but retains a lot of white space in and around itself (kind of like a "half-tone"), while the folio on the floor and the candle bring some white into the main image. I also lightened up the wall quite a bit, to further integrate the image with the page, and brought down the saturation in a few areas to establish the final color and lighting scheme.
I plotted the wall shadow using a reduced size image for the perspective:
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