Stripes and Pinafore
Stripes and Pinafore. 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 full-length standing figure drawing, Vienna c. 1915, in the manner of his clothed portrait studies with patterned garments. An adult woman with long dark hair wearing small dark sunglasses, standing full length and frontal with feet planted apart, one hand raised in a loose fist resting under her chin, the other arm crossed low at her waist, a small flat bag on a thin chain strap hanging at her side, black ankle boots. Fully clothed in a collared white shirt with fine black vertical stripes and a long black button-through pinafore skirt with shoulder straps; non-sexual, decorous, sober clothed figure study, no nudity. Nervous angular broken black ink contour line describing the jaw, neck, shoulders, both arms, the raised fist with exaggerated bony knuckles, the hips and the long skirt, drawn with wiry precision and deliberate breaks in the line. Render the striped shirt with hand-drawn irregular vertical ink lines that wobble, thicken and break where the bare paper shows through, following the fold of the sleeve. Render the pinafore skirt as one dense flat black graphic mass with hard faceted angular folds and a line of small buttons down the front, set directly against the pale striped shirt for a strong tonal split. Thin patchy gouache washes on the face and hands only, in muted ochre and dull brick red with cold green accents at the cheek and knuckles, so the flesh is the single warm note on the sheet. Remove the street, motorbikes and buildings entirely; large areas of untouched cream paper as the ground, mannered elongated limbs, tense composed expression, raw and expressive. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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