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You and me! That is what I actually see and understand and am able to really apply the actual concept to a visual reality I observe. The technique, apparently, can be applied in a number of ways as not just to skin, to give more energy to any edge. In a more arbitrary application, it is a lively delineator for shapes you want to jazz up.
I observe, like you do, the warmth at the edge and tried to describe it in my own knowledge, as the same red we see with the flashlight and our hand, the glow in the ears, the thin vessels becoming more apparent as the skin turns. I never purposely applied the concept as a strategy until this piece. The real difference was the headset I used of asking myself, at each turn, when looking for a color: "could it be red?" I even used it in the green, a stroke now and then of alizarin, and it worked! It didn't seem arbitrary when used more logically, but making the choices to use red, seemed to make this woman, who has always challenged me, come to life.
It seriously may just be me! I have not had time to try a second painting from scratch to plan along these lines.
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