Painting content 3 looks at different mark-making techniques that can create emotional, psychological or conceptual aspects. It makes you think about layering, colour and composition as you execute portraits. Painting skin tones taught me when to use cool tones and warm tones while only adding a little bit of white and black to create light and dark on the face, being careful not to tone out the colours for realistic-looking skin. I used to add random colours, whether they were primary, secondary or tertiary colours. If you want blush tones, you can add a little bit of red, which I wanted to extend more to my resolved work, as it is something I want to add more to my practice. Learning different marks to create another interesting effect on my paintings, and I liked learning new ways to execute that. Exercise 1 was about using composition, tone and overall foundation before detail, and Exercise 2 was identifying the most essential parts to describe a portrait, such as sections and shadows.
