Since the first light flesh tone was mixed (and painted) a little lower and warmer in key than the highest color on the face, we can now bring up (lighten) the lights. (See Plate 8, opposite.) Take the color you mixed for the first flesh tone, and, adding a little white to it, paint in all the lights existing on the light side of the face.

Start with the highest light; almost without exception this is the round spot of the forehead, for it is here that the light usually hits the sitter directly. 8The lights should diminish in brightness as they go down the face, for, as the surfaces turn away from the light source, the rays strike at more and more of an oblique angle.

Next paint in the light on the side of the nose and on the cheekbone, then the side of the upper lip from the cheek and nose to the mouth. The light here generally needs to be cooled a little by adding a very small amount of viridian and yellow ochre to the tone you are now using. Continue to the chin, neck and shoulders. Next, bring up the lights on the blouse.

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