Blue Outline
The same sitter drawn in cobalt contour with thin washy colour brushed loosely inside it, the canvas left bare and unfinished at the corners.
Bravura
A young woman in a dark bodice, caught in warm dusk light with confident wet-into-wet strokes placed once and left alone.
Broken Contour
The same sitter reduced to nervous broken ink line and patchy gouache, mannered and elongated on bare cream paper.
Forensic
The same sitter under cold north-facing studio light, her flesh built in thick Cremnitz white impasto with unsparing attention to the bone beneath.
Slipped Out of Register
The same face smeared and dragged out of register against a flat green-ochre field, one eye left disconcertingly sharp.