Portrait 1323

Abstract impressionist nude artwork — Portrait 1323 rendered across multiple artistic styles.

Portrait 1323 — Lilac Quarry

Lilac Quarry

Cool blue and lavender with rounded stone forms in the background. Softer and more organic than it first appears. The palette runs from ice blue to soft purple.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in cool blues and lavender with smooth, rounded stone forms

Portrait 1323 — White Light

White Light

Pale white and grey with soft angular background forms and warm red accents. Light and airy. The figure feels illuminated from within.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in pale grey and white with warm red accents and soft angular shapes

Portrait 1323 — Ghost Crowd

Ghost Crowd

Cool grey with swirling marks and ghostly repeated faces emerging from the background. Unsettling and distinctive. The figure stands in a crowd of shadows.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in cool grey tones with swirling marks and ghostly layered faces

Portrait 1323 — Ice Facet

Ice Facet

Cool blue geometric planes like shattered ice filling the background. The figure is refracted rather than rendered. Cold and crystalline.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in fractured geometric planes of cool blue, crystalline and sharp

Portrait 1323 — White Fracture

White Fracture

High-key warm white with large fractured plaster forms filling the background. Cool shadows give the pale surface depth and sculptural weight. Light and substantial with a bleached stone quality.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in pale fractured plaster, cool shadows adding sculptural depth

Portrait 1323 — Blue Vignette

Blue Vignette

Dark blue border frames a cool interior of rounded boulder forms in pale blue and stone. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool surround. The vignette framing gives a distinctive painting-within-a-painting quality. Cool and composed with real painterly substance.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in cool blues and warm painterly strokes with vignette framing

Portrait 1323 — Barbuda

Barbuda

Bright sky blue with large rounded cloud-like forms in white and pale blue surrounding the figure. Figure is warm and grounded against the airy cool surround. Light and open — one of the most genuinely sky-like backgrounds in this range. Luminous and uplifting.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in luminous sky blues with billowing rounded cloud forms in white and pale blue

Portrait 1323 — Stone Arch

Stone Arch

Cool blue and taupe with angular stone-like geometric forms and a distinctive arched border framing the composition. Background generates fractured architectural planes within the arch. Figure is clean and graphic against the cool structured surround. Architectural and precise with a classical framing quality.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in cool blues and taupe with angular stone-like geometry and a classical arched border

Portrait 1323 — Silver Peak

Silver Peak

Cool silver and blue with dramatic angular mountain-like forms filling the background — jagged peaks or shattered rock faces in dark gestural marks. Figure is warm and painterly against the powerful cool surround. Alpine and commanding. One of the more dramatically structured backgrounds in this range.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in bold angular marks with icy silver-blue peaks and warm painterly figure

Portrait 1323 — From Orbs

From Orbs

Dark near-black ground with large pale rounded forms glowing with cool violet-grey light and teal edge highlights. Figure stands warm against the luminous floating masses. The orbs read as buoyant and light-catching rather than geological — strange and quietly spectacular.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in deep shadow with luminous violet-grey orbs and teal-edged highlights

Portrait 1323 — Rose Highlights

Rose Highlights

Pale watercolour-like ground with soft grey-blue shadow marks and rose-pink accents catching at knees hands and floor. Dark forms loom in the upper corners. The surface has a first-pull silkscreen quality — colour present but not yet fully arrived. Delicate and slightly unresolved.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in pale washes with soft grey-blue shadows and rose-pink highlights

Portrait 1323 — Penumbra

Penumbra

Cool blue-grey and near-black with a blazing white centre that backlights the figure dramatically. Large dark organic forms sweep in from both sides like heavy wings or drawn curtains. Figure sits at the threshold of light and shadow in deep cool tones with only traces of warm flesh breaking through.

Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, downcast eyes, body canted, lingerie, arms up, cropped at the waist, rendered in cool blue-grey tones with stark white backlighting and sweeping dark forms