I started Painting #1 by coating the canvas with a nude light skin tone colour (student grade acrylic paint) as my base, because I didn't like how bright the original white colour was. Next I made a cool toned blue, yellow, purple and pink by mixing each of the colours with white and light grey (student grade acrylic paint). I made them cool toned so that they would fade more into the background when I added brighter colours later on top. Then I took a wet brush and a dry brush for each colour and painted thick lines going horizontally and vertically all over the canvas. I did both a dry and wet brush to create a variety in textures. Next I added some small features all over the canvas with the same colours but mixed with more white to make them lighter and pop more over the first ones. I added straight blocked lines of light pink acrylic paint, which you can see in the top right corner and middle bottom right of the painting. Then I layered a darker but still bright pink over half of those thick lines as I wanted to add more elements. I also took he light pink again and painted two swirls, in the top left corner and under the crown by the lip. Next I took a bright orange and a cool toned greyish green and scarped them onto the canvas in areas with a palette knife which created a cool texture as the paint became less as the palette knife spread the colour. Next I painted the lip and crown. With the lip, I painted the full shape in with a light red acrylic paint and then took the back of a paint brush and scraped in some lines to define the lip. For the crown, I started by simply blocking in the shape of the crown fully with yellow acrylic paint. After letting the painting dry enough that I could paint over it without blending colours, I added some more smaller details and elements. For the lip, I took a light pink and added highlights to the top and bottom lips and then created a chin and cupid's bow with the same light pink, under and above the lip. Next I went back to the crown and added the eye to the middle by taking white acrylic paint and making a circle and then after it dried, doing the same but smaller and in a royal blue acrylic paint. I then let some of the white paint drip to make the eye appear as it is bleeding as another interesting detail. After that had all dried, I went in with some acrylic paint pens and added a lot more smaller details. Throughout the piece I added, red curved lines, light blue curved lines, sharp yellow lines (like scratches) and white lines beside the thick light pink and dark pink lines from the background from earlier. Next I took a gold coloured paint pen and drew little circles in a line in different areas all over the painting, each with a different amount of circles in that line. I also used the gold pen to outline the crown. I also outlined the light pink swirls I did earlier with a red paint pen. Then I drew two faces, one in the bottom right corner and one in the opposing corner in the top left. The bottom right one is a full face, drawn with continuous line. After I outlined the face with white acrylic pen, I went in and coloured the eyes, nose and lips with a royal blue paint pen and the forehead and cheek with a red paint one, just scratched in. For the top left face, I drew a nose and lips with the white paint pen using continuous line as well. After drawing the face with the white paint pen, I let the white paint drip from the nose to make the nose look like it's bleeding. This also made the piece look cohesive with the eye drips. Then I added gold lines to the nose drip and dark and light blue paint pen highlights on the nose and lips. For the lips, I added lines in red and white paint pen to highlight the bottom and top lip and then did the same with the cupid's bow and chine I drew in light pink acrylic paint earlier. For the crown, I used the dark blue paint pen to create a swirl in the pupil of the eye and then I took a thick black sharpie pen and drew the lemon shape of the eye. Next I used the red paint pen to make the eye more realistic by filling in the space between the white and the black and adding in red details to make the eye look bloodshot. Afterwards, I found I didn't like how the black lemon shape of the eye looked because it over powered everything else in the painting, pulling the viewers attention too much in my opinion. Especially since I didn't incorporate the black anywhere else in the painting. So to fix this, after the black had dried, I took a white and light blue paint pen and tried to cover the black. I liked how this turned out a lot more. I also used the same coloured pens to draw into the eye drip area. Lastly  I finished the painting by covering it in a tar gel finish to make the painting shiny. The tar gel made the layers of elements pop more and make the elements of the painting look more together and cohesive.