Warm brown and taupe tones with dramatic rocky stone forms flanking the figure. Painterly and classical in feel. The figure and background feel genuinely integrated.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in warm earth tones with painterly classical technique
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 a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in bold graphite on dark ground with dramatic sweeping strokes
Warm flesh tones throughout with ghostly repeated figure forms filling the background in the same skin palette. The repeated forms generate odd fleshy appendages around the central figure. Distinctive and slightly unsettling.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in warm skin tones with ghostly repeated figure forms creating an unsettling backdrop
Cool blue-grey with large angular fragmented planes filling the entire image. The figure is integrated into the geometry with warm flesh tones as the only warmth in the composition. Precise and cool with a rounded arch framing the surround.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool blue-grey cubist planes with warm flesh tones as the sole contrast
Deep cobalt blue borders frame a cool interior of angular rock or ice forms in blue and white. Figure is warm against the cold stone surround. Painterly and dramatic rather than photographic. The cobalt frame gives this style a distinctive compositional signature.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in deep cobalt-framed painterly blues with angular ice-like forms
Cool blue taupe and pale rose with rounded smooth boulder forms filling the background. Figure is warm and confident against the cool stone surround. Naturalistic and grounded — the background reads as river-worn stone rather than angular rock. Softer and more painterly than Blue Granite.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in smooth river-worn stone tones of blue-taupe and pale rose
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, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in bold angular marks with icy silver-blue peaks and warm painterly figure
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 a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in luminous whites with dark tendril marks 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 a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in thick impasto strokes of blue-grey and ochre in a sweeping herringbone pattern
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 a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in bold dark contour line on pale blue ground with warm flesh tones
Large rounded geometric planes in mid blue pale blue-grey cream and warm taupe cover the entire surface in a cool confident mosaic. Figure painted in the same cool tones fully integrated into the ground. Structured and architectural with a glazed ceramic quality.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in cool geometric planes of blue, grey-cream, and taupe with ceramic-glazed depth
Pale near-white ground with loose organic forms in cool blue-grey and warm taupe floating around the figure like torn fragments drifting in open space. Figure painted in warm golden flesh tones with loose painterly marks. Airy and open with generous white space throughout.
Portrait of a partially dressed subject with arms up, eye contact, body square, street clothes, arms up, traditional bust cropping, rendered in pale washes with drifting cool and warm fragments on an open white ground