Description
Faces in the Mirror V – a gold field and chestnut hair
Painting on canvas rests the face against a wide gold field that occupies the left third and is worked in soft circular strokes: abstract painting on one side of the canvas and a portrait on the other.
Technique and texture
That gold field is the only place with a visible stroke — the paint is laid in circles that catch light at different angles. The face is its opposite: cream and greyish planes smoothed flat with no trace of the tool. The contours run thinner than elsewhere in the series and in places give way to shadow instead of line.
The motif
The head is tilted and cut at the chin, so it appears to lean out of the canvas toward the viewer. The lips are small and deep red, the only saturated note in an otherwise soft range. Two large blue eyes carry a white flash each, and the gold field to the left acts as light falling on the face from one side.
Setting and placement
Soft tones with gold in them bring warmth into a coolly furnished room without brightening it. Above a chest of drawers, or in a bedroom, it stays calm despite the scale of the head.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, circular gold strokes, smoothed facial planes, contour giving way to shadow
- Palette: gold, chestnut red, cream, grey, blue
- Ideal for: bedrooms, living rooms, dressing rooms
- Character: soft, warm, quietly elegant
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