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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, powerful dark-ground graphite technique with bold gestural strokes
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, loose impressionist technique, glowing with pinks, greens, and blues
Fine crosshatch and contour lines on a warm ground with geometric forms in the background. Detailed and energetic. The lines map the figure with conviction.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, detailed ink hatching on warm ground, geometric forms receding behind the figure
Warm ochre and flesh tones on the figure against a fractured white ground with bold blue and yellow colour blocks. The grid is loose and painterly rather than hard-edged. Energetic and immediate with strong graphic presence.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, bold colour blocking in ochre and blue on a broken white ground, immediate and gestural
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, strict angular planes, no colour, figure folded into geometric surfaces
Cool grey-brown with tall dark arched panels flanking the figure. The panels carry circular rivet-like forms giving the background a strong industrial character. Stark and architectural with a mechanical edge.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, cool grey-brown tones, tall riveted panels, stark geometric industrial aesthetic
Pale ground with a dense blue-grey pattern of text-like or script-like marks filling the background. The figure is rendered in warm flesh tones over the inscribed surface. Distinctive and layered with an archaeological quality.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, figure in warm tones emerging from an archaeological ground of text-like markings
Pale cream and warm rose with a distinctive stippled newsprint-like texture throughout. Figure has the quality of a silk screen that didn't fully take — present but not quite arrived. Background generates soft fragmented forms in the same light palette. Light and distinctive — unlike most painterly styles in this range.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, soft stippled halftone feel in blush and cream, delicate and print-like
Deep cobalt blue organic forms and warm cream masses fill the background in bold painterly strokes. Figure rendered in warm flesh tones against the strong blue and cream surround. The blue forms have genuine weight and presence — geological and imposing. Blue border frames the composition.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, in an expressive style with weighty geological blues and warm organic forms
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, muted watercolour ground with dark looming corners and blush accents
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 partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, pale blue ground, strong contour line and warm flesh tones in classical figure style
Pale blue-white ground with large fluid dark forms sweeping in from the sides like heavy shadow or dark marble veining. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with cool blue accents standing clearly in the pale centre. Dramatic and fluid with a marbled quality.
Portrait of partially dressed subject, making eye contact. Arms play a vital role, body from the side, street clothes, traditional bust cropping, dramatic marbled contrasts with sweeping dark forms and glowing pale center