This pass with brights is where an artist begins to mold the contours of a likeness. The artist must be able to follow the patterns of light and see ahead to what the other layers will do to influence the information as we lay it down. I know that I will need to brighten even more the areas of brightest light. If you are studying these blogs in order to learn portrait painting,I would say this layer could be studied repeatedly. I compare the previous layer to the skeleton and this one to muscle. We don’t want our painting to look flat like the canvas. We want it to utilize the light in order to create the illusion of space and form.