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, tight cropping, moody cave-grey palette with pink and mauve seeping through textured stone
Soft impressionist brushwork in pale pinks greens and blues with floral forms in the background. Delicate and luminous. The figure feels alive with light and colour.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, luminous impressionist style with pale floral tones and delicate brushwork
Cool grey with large sculptural rock forms in the background. Painterly and soft. The figure sits comfortably in front of the surface.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, cool grey tones, loose brushwork, monumental rock forms softly rendered
Cool grey with ghostly watching faces filling the background. Unsettling and distinctive. Similar to Ghost Crowd but painterly rather than graphic.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, soft painterly grey palette with haunting watching faces emerging from the background
Warm grey with bold swirling painterly forms in the background. The figure feels modelled rather than painted. Sculptural and considered.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, rendered in expressive swirling greys with a considered, three-dimensional quality
Pale white and cool grey-green ground shattered into large angular planes by bold dark outlines. Figure described in confident contour with minimal interior rendering. Background generates broken geometric shapes like fractured ice. Clean and immediate with strong graphic authority.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, bold contour drawing with fractured geometric background in icy white and grey-green tones
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 nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
Cool pale blue and cream with tall rounded vertical forms filling the background — standing stones or monoliths in pale stone tones. Figure is warm against the cool ancient surround. Clean and naturalistic with a megalithic presence. Distinctive vertical character sets it apart from other stone styles.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, warm figure set against ancient standing stones in naturalistic style
Warm rose-pink cream and ochre impasto with large rounded floral forms filling the background in thick generous brushwork. Figure merges warmly with the rosy surround. The muted unsaturated tones read as autumn rather than high summer — abundant but cooling.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, rendered in muted autumnal tones with abundant rounded forms in heavy paint
Pale blue and cream angular planes fill the background in large airy blocks — bright and open rather than heavy. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the luminous cool ground. Light-filled and confident.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, angular blocks of cool light and warm figure, bright and airy
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, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, painted in hot fauvist tones where figure dissolves into blazing streaked color fields
Near-white ground with bold crimson-rose and dark contour lines describing the figure in confident decisive strokes. Minimal background detail keeps the focus entirely on the line. Immediate and graphic with the authority of a strong fashion illustration.
Portrait of nude subject, making eye contact, in which arms play a vital role, body from the side, smiling, tight cropping, strong contour lines and decisive strokes in crimson on minimal white ground