A flying Kiss

Embracing a natural 20" x 40"

This work turned out to be interesting as I was in the process of doing a figurative painting horizontally and was looking for creating an image with broad strokes in tangerine, but changed my mind and turned the canvas around vertically and let go. I retained parts of the orange color by wiping away the new layer with the palm of my hand and saw the interesting effect it had on the face. The butterfly was painted in line drawing in acrylic and pastel to give a delicate touch.