As you can see from the latest picture the painting is receiving the final layer of detail.
This stage is fairly simple to explain. It is basically layering on the colours in the face.
The skin on the face of a person is not just a peachy colour. If you look at a persons face you will see many different colours. Take a look at the child on the left, her face has been completed here. You can see oranges shaping the nose and the left side of her face (the right side as you look at her), there is purple defining the lower side of the cheekbon,e and blue highlights the top of her nose. These are just a few examples of the different colours in there.
If you looked at the same subjects face on a different day you would see different colours in these areas, as the lighting will be different and there will also be physical changes such as the flush of her cheeks, or the colours around her eyes if she was more or less tired. This is the beauty of the human face, it is continually lit with beautiful colours and these colours vary in different lighting.
Whilst this rule of colours in the face also applies to any other part of the human body (I will look for the colours when I proceed to the neck and shoulders in this picture), the colours and shades are more detailed and complex in the face, making them (for me personally) the most interesting part of a portrait.
I will take you through the finishing off stage (or the first finishing stage anyway) in my next blog.
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