Warm brown and taupe tones with dramatic rocky stone forms flanking the figure. Painterly and classical in feel. The figure and background feel genuinely integrated.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, dramatic stone forms in rich ochre and taupe, old master style
Bold red and white with organic sculptural forms surrounding the figure. The red bleeds into white rather than filling hard shapes. Dramatic and immediate.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, in sweeping red-bleeds-to-white with expressive organic shapes and visceral immediacy
Pure monochrome grey with large geometric faceted planes filling the background. The figure is folded into the same angular surface rather than modelled in the round. Precise and cool with no colour anywhere in the image.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, monochrome cubist facets, figure and ground merged in cool grey
Cool blue-grey stone block architecture fills the background with arched recesses and layered masonry. The figure is warm-toned against a cool structured surround. Painterly and grounded with a classical architectural presence.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, soft brushwork evoking Renaissance masonry in muted blue-grey and warm flesh tones
Warm cream and pale pink with tall flowing organic forms filling the background. A fine woven texture maps figure and ground throughout. Warm and tactile with a gentle flowing quality.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, soft tactile weave of pale pink and cream, organic forms rippling through figure and ground
Warm peach gold and dusty mauve fragments spiral behind a coherent figure. Background generates strong rotational energy — almost kaleidoscopic. Figure holds while the surroundings dissolve into motion. Energetic and flattering to warm sources.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, bold spiral fragments of warm peach and mauve dissolve dynamically around a steady figure
Pale ivory and cream ground with loose scrolling organic forms in terracotta and rust. Background generates rounded decorative shapes — ornamental rather than architectural. Figure is warm and confident against the near-white surround. Distinctive and quietly decorative.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, soft cream background with rounded decorative shapes in earthy rust tones, ornamental and warm
Near-black ground with slashing crimson and deep red forms flanking the figure. Figure is pale and exposed against the dark threatening surround. Darker and more menacing than Crimson Stage — the black dominates with red as accent. Dramatic and confrontational.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, stark pale figure exposed against dominating black ground with deep red forms
Cool blue taupe and pale rose with rounded smooth boulder forms filling the background. Figure is warm and confident against the cool stone surround. Naturalistic and grounded — the background reads as river-worn stone rather than angular rock. Softer and more painterly than Blue Granite.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, warm figure set against cool rounded boulder forms, painterly and grounded
Luminous white cloud forms fill the background with dark charcoal tendril or vine-like marks threading through them. Cool blue-grey at the base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the pale open surround. Looser and more organic than Pale Damask — botanical rather than decorative.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
Pale azure ground with large draped forms described in clean dark contour line. Figure rendered in the same decisive line with warm flesh tones. One of the more reliably flattering styles available. The clean line finds and elevates the essential form in almost any source.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, clean decisive linework on azure ground, draped forms in elegant dark outline
Saturated yellow ground with vertical streaks and drips of red orange and blue running through the composition like paint in motion. Figure painted in warm flesh and orange-red tones fully absorbed into the blazing ground. Hot gestural and overwhelming.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body canted, traditional bust cropping, painted in hot fauvist tones where figure dissolves into blazing streaked color fields