Cardigan and Buttons
Cardigan and Buttons. A clothed portrait study after Schiele: nervous broken contour, patchy gouache wash, and large areas of bare paper left as the ground.
How this was made
This piece began with a photograph and a written instruction. Both are kept, so the record is complete rather than flattering.
THE PROMPT AND THE SETTINGS
PROMPT
POSITIVE: Repaint this photograph as an Egon Schiele portrait drawing, Vienna c. 1915, in the manner of his clothed portrait studies. Three-quarter-length study of an adult Black woman with a full curly afro, standing upright and frontal, one hand on her hip with the elbow angled out, the other arm holding a flat dark rectangular slab at her side. Fully clothed and modestly covered in a buttoned pale blue-grey cardigan with a row of buttons down the front, a black belt and black trousers; strictly non-sexual and non-erotic, no nudity, decorous and restrained. Nervous angular broken black ink contour line describing the jaw, neck, shoulders, both arms and bony expressive fingers with wiry precision and deliberate breaks in the line. The cardigan rendered as flat angular faceted drapery planes with the button line as a hard graphic accent; the afro as a dense dark angular mass of short broken marks. Thin patchy gouache and watercolour washes over the skin in warm brown, umber and ochre, with small cold green and dull red accents only at the cheek and knuckles, modelling carried by line and uneven wash rather than smooth shading. Muted slate blue and cold grey in the garment. Large areas of untouched cream paper left as the ground. Remove the glass corridor and floor entirely; empty paper background, mannered elongated arms, tense alert self-possessed expression, raw and expressive. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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