Lexie
Portrait in my college painting studio. This is a very simple portrait with lots of little details that I find significant. The shadow across the wall connects the simple composition started by the vertical hanging surfboard pointing at the girl who is lying horizontally on the couch. The visual path usually ends at the mirror on the wall that reflects me painting her (after Valasquez's 'Les Meninias'). The most unusual part of this modeling session was that she insisted on watching me (with one eye) with the same intesity as i was observing her. This event was likely to have sparked my interest in the subject of 'object-oriented' figure painting (as a harmful pattern that I had noticed developing).