The Printed Headscarf
The Printed Headscarf. 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 with patterned garments. An adult woman with long wavy hair, head turned to the side, wearing a printed silk headscarf wrapped over her hair and knotted at the throat with the ends falling across her shoulder, large gold hoop earrings. One hand raised near her face holding a pair of folded sunglasses, the other lowered resting at her hip, a small handbag hanging from her forearm, bangles at both wrists. Fully clothed in a tailored beige double-breasted blazer over a white top and matching beige trousers; non-sexual, decorous, sober portrait study. Nervous angular broken black ink contour line describing the jaw, neck, shoulders, both arms and both hands with bony elongated splayed fingers, drawn with wiry precision and deliberate breaks in the line. Make the headscarf the one saturated element: a bold flat hand-drawn decorative field of emerald green, gold ochre and cream in irregular graphic blocks and chain-like motifs, wobbling and breaking where the bare paper shows through. Carry the pale beige suit almost entirely on line weight with only the faintest ochre wash in the fold shadows at the elbow, lapel and knee, so it reads as structure rather than a blank void. Thin patchy gouache washes on the face and hands in muted ochre and dull brick red with cold green accents at the cheek and knuckles. Remove the shopfront, window and pavement entirely; large areas of untouched cream paper as the ground, mannered elongated arms, tense composed expression, raw and expressive. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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NOTE
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