Life drawing and Finger painting

Today, we have been creating finger painting images using inspiration taken from the work of Jenny Saville. We began by finding images by Saville that we thought were interesting and had a good use of colour; i found an portrait of a man where Saville had used a lot of green and yellow colours to create the skin. I liked this image in particular because the use of colour was both effective and appealing.

We used our life model, John, to begin our images. I began by drawing a central line down the middle and a line to signify the top of John's head, i then sketched in the basic shape of the face and finally some of his facial features. The drawing did not need to be detailed as it would be covered by the paint. I then added a base colour of white covering the area of the face and began to add shades of green and yellow to create a similar skin tone from Jenny Saville's image  This was quite successful, however i found it more effective to use strokes rather then dabbing the paint with my finger. 
I enjoyed finger painting; i think it allows you to be freer with the paint and doesn't give you boundaries to stick within. I found it enjoyable and appealing to mix the colours on the page, adding white to blend the colours better.