Gipsy

Description

Expressive Portrait

The face anchors the entire painting. A yellow streak in the hair, a blue spot on the cheek, dark lips. The body is merely a black line: an earring, a shoulder, the outline of the neck. What is important is painted. What is not there is not missing.

Subject: a female portrait, head and shoulders. A large circular earring. A direct gaze, eyes set sharply. A figure, not a landscape or a costumed scene.

Style: contemporary expressive figurative painting. Splashes of color combined with quick brushwork. Watercolor/acrylic washes on the face; the rest leaves the background exposed. Close to fashion sketches and Expressionism.

From a distance, a light-colored face against a white wall. Up close: blue on the cheek, a blush, an ochre neck, and areas where a line merely hints at hair.

It suits an interior that can hold the viewer’s gaze: a study, a bedroom, or a narrow wall in a hallway. The painting looks back at you.

Original.