Strong graphite on dark ground with bold sweeping strokes filling the background. High contrast and dramatic. The figure stands in a storm of marks!
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, rendered in bold graphite on dark ground with dramatic sweeping strokes
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, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, rendered in warm sepia and grey-brown tones with heavy layered texture
Cool blue lavender and silver with a silky vertical flow in the background — draped fabric or cascading water in cool light. Figure is warm against the pearlescent surround. Iridescent and luminous throughout. One of the more delicate and distinctive backgrounds in this range.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, rendered in cool lavender and silver with silky cascading texture and warm iridescent glow
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 nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, rendered in cool blues and warm painterly strokes with vignette framing
Cool cerulean blue and cream in large flat geometric planes. Figure is warm against the cool blue geometry — a clean warm-cool contrast. Elegant and graphic rather than sensuous. Background generates smooth rounded geometric forms in deep and pale blue.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, rendered in flat cerulean and cream geometric planes with clean warm-cool contrast
Cool blue and mauve with large rounded petal-like forms filling the background — abstract roses with a crystalline flash. Figure is warm and painterly against the cool floral surround. Soft and romantic but with a sparkling edge. Distinctive and immediately appealing.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, in a soft romantic style with cool blue-mauve florals and warm painterly brushwork
Near-white ground with cool blue outline marks describing figure and background in the same delicate line. Rounded organic forms in the background share the same blueprint-like character. Minimal and elegant — the figure exists as cool blue drawing on white. Light and immediately distinctive.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, rendered in delicate cool blue line on near-white, minimal and elegant
Cool teal and blue with swirling rounded organic forms creating a vortex-like background. Dark border frames the composition. Figure is warm against the cool oceanic surround. Dynamic and fluid — the background has genuine rotational energy. Related to Blue Organ but more oceanic than biological.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, rendered in swirling teal and blue with fluid vortex energy and a dark framing border
Cool blue and pale grey with large flowing folded forms filling the background — billowing fabric or soft drapery rendered in fluid organic shapes. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with blue-grey overlay. Lighter and more structured than Ashen Chaos — cool and considered.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, in cool blues and pale grey with billowing draped forms and warm flesh tones
Cool blue-grey and warm ochre-gold impasto with large diagonal brushstrokes creating a herringbone pattern across the entire surface. Figure and background unified in the same energetic mark-making. Flattering and enveloping — this style wraps its subject in warmth and movement.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, rendered in thick impasto strokes of blue-grey and ochre in a sweeping herringbone pattern
Near-white ground with sparse irregular dark forms in grey-brown and warm taupe scattered at the edges and base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with precise dark line standing clearly in the open white field. Bright airy and uncluttered.
Portrait of nude subject making eye contact, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, painted in warm flesh tones with crisp ink lines on an open white ground
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, face and body angled way from the canvas, body from the side, tight cropping, rendered in bold crimson-rose lines on near-white with graphic fashion illustration confidence