This small painting was more of an experiment than a finished piece but there are elements of it that I think are note worthy.
the original premiss for this painting was that complimentary colours when painted in close proximity will draw the attention of the viewer (this is used quite subtly in some pointillist paintings) I painted a face using fairly toned down colours like the pink and light blue. I then painted the shadows of the face that would usually fall in to the back ground with green and red which was an attempt to pull those areas to the foreground.
This experiment ended up flattening the entire face so I decided to add some more interesting elements to the painting. I wanted to emphasise the small size of the canvas I was working on by selecting areas of the face that would have fit comfortably within the canvas and stretching them out of the frame.
After painting the head bald I added in an area of black paint that was clearly meant to represent hair however I attempted to make this area look as flat and artificial as possible.
There was no end goal or intent for this painting but i think that this adds to its appearance, since i was only painting it to experiment with concepts, I was not concerned with whether or not my ideas would work which makes this painting very different from my usual work which is generally very careful and planned.