The subtleties of the skin tones, the edges created by the turning forms and by the structure underneath.\u00a0 The warm\/cool relationships.\u00a0 In this painting, I wanted to express a feeling of a figure without being too literal.\u00a0 It\u2019s real and palpable, yet it borders abstraction.\u00a0 It\u2019s real because the rendering of everything around it is so abstract.\u00a0 It\u2019s abstracted even from a head (I really didn\u2019t need the head here, it was not about the likeness).\u00a0 I felt free to explore and sculpt a body out of strokes.\u00a0 It was liberating.\u00a0 How far to go so that it remains fresh, how to create reality without making it too realistic, how to create a feeling of a body that is about to move rather than being frozen in space.\u00a0 How to play with the subtleties of of the skin tones without making them flat, how to create warmth and yet use cooler palette.\u00a0 I loved creating this piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"