Dark grey with cave-like grotto forms in the background. Hints of pink and mauve bleed through the stone texture. Cooler and moodier than Cool Slate.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, deep charcoal grotto atmosphere, cool and brooding with blushes of mauve
Pale ground with bold simplified planes and swirling organic forms in the background. The figure becomes sculptural. Clean and immediate.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, immediate and graphic, pale ground, sweeping organic forms, simplified planes
Cool blue geometric planes like shattered ice filling the background. The figure is refracted rather than rendered. Cold and crystalline.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, cubist planes of glacial blue splinter the figure into icy geometry
Warm sepia and grey-brown tones over a heavily layered textured surface. The background generates dark flanking forms that read like weathered or torn paper. The figure feels retrieved from an aged document rather than a contemporary image.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, retrieved from deteriorating parchment, sepia-toned with torn-edge shadow forms
Warm grey-brown with tall dark architectural forms flanking the figure on either side. The figure is naturalistically rendered in warm flesh tones against the cool structured surround. Painterly and grounded with a monumental quality.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, painterly realism with warm amber flesh, dark flanking architecture, grounded monumentality
Cool blue-violet with large angular faceted planes filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered in warm flesh tones against the crystalline surround. Precise and cold with a quartz-like quality to the fractured background.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, naturalistic figure contrasted with sharp geometric blue-violet crystal facets
Pale warm plaster with dark ornate architectural forms flanking the figure. The background reads as a classical interior with worn columns or pilasters. Painterly and warm with a genuinely historical quality.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, historic oil painting quality with flanking architectural ornament and warm hues
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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, clean graphic forms set against structured angular stonework within a classically arched surround
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, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, organic botanical style, pale open surround with loose dark linear marks
Cool cream and white ground with strong vertical streaks in deep blue-grey and teal that read like frozen cascades or dripping ice. Figure rendered in the same cool palette with deep shadow and quiet intensity. Large dark organic forms flank the composition like drawn curtains.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, deep blue-grey organic forms frame a cool, shadow-rich composition with quiet intensity
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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, deep cool palette, blazing backlight, monumental dark shapes converging on a luminous threshold
Large rounded organic forms in cream pale gold and soft teal-grey pack the background like a mass of open oyster shells. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with the same impasto weight as the surrounding forms. Lush and sculptural — the figure is held rather than swamped.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, cropped at the waist, in a lush impasto style where figure and ground share equal painterly mass and warm flesh tones