The Cane
The Cane. 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 male portrait drawing, Vienna c. 1914, in the manner of his clothed standing portraits of men. A young adult man with short dark hair and a light moustache and beard, standing three-quarter on, turned slightly, one hand gripping the brass knob of an upright wooden cane, the other hand at his side. Fully clothed in a plain dark long-sleeved sweatshirt and dark trousers; non-sexual, decorous, sober portrait study. Nervous angular broken black ink contour line describing the jaw, neck, shoulders, arms and the gripping hand with bony elongated knuckles and splayed fingers, drawn with wiry precision and deliberate breaks in the line. The dark sweatshirt rendered as a single flat angular graphic shape of dense black-grey wash with hard faceted folds at the elbow and cuff, set against bare paper rather than dissolving into shadow. The cane a hard vertical accent running down through the composition. Thin patchy gouache washes on the face and hands in warm brown, umber and ochre with small cold green and dull red accents at the cheek and knuckles. Large areas of untouched cream paper as the ground. Remove the black studio backdrop entirely; empty paper background, mannered elongated arms, tense wary self-possessed expression, raw and expressive. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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