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, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, high-contrast charcoal style with expressive storm-like mark-making
Cool grey crosshatch and gestural marks fill the background with organic forms emerging from the surface. The figure is sketched rather than rendered with loose confident line. Immediate and alive with a life-drawing energy.
Portrait of partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, rendered in spontaneous life-drawing lines and grey hatching
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 partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, painted against pearlescent draped fabric in blues and silver with luminous warmth
Stark black corners frame radiating crumpled white planes — crushed paper or foil caught in sharp light. Figure is warm against the high contrast surround. Graphic and dramatic with a strong print-like character. Bold silhouettes read with particular intensity in this style.
Portrait of partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, dramatic foil-crush effect with stark black corners and radiating white planes
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 partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
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 partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, blueprint-style blue outlines on white, figure and ground in one continuous line
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 partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, in cool oceanic blues with rotating organic forms and warm figure contrast
Cool silver-grey and white monochrome with large rounded rock or ice forms filling the background. Figure rendered in the same cool tones and merging with the pale sculptural surround. Arctic and glacial in character — cold light on cold stone.
Portrait of partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, pale arctic tones, rounded ice-like shapes absorbing figure and ground into one cold mass
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 partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
Deep navy border framing fractured rock-like forms in cool blue-grey and white with vivid scarlet accents. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with red shoes that match the mood exactly. Bold and theatrical — this style turns everything up.
Portrait of partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, bold theatrical style with cool blue-grey planes and vivid red accents
Large angular planes in white pale grey dusty rose and muted burgundy sweep diagonally across a predominantly white ground like torn or peeling layers of paper. Figure integrated into the fractured pale surface. Light open and architecturally spare.
Portrait of partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, fractured geometric layers in dusty rose, muted burgundy, and white
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 partially dressed subject making eye contact, body square, lingerie, statement jewlry, traditional bust cropping, sparse ink forms in grey-brown and taupe framing a bright airy white field