Another take on simplifying the human figure, this work can be lumped in with Sixteen Point Two Five and The Human Eye as experiments in reduction. Here, I tried to simplify the girl much like I had in Sixteen but while trying to retain her essense as an individual. I also toiled with the conflict between what initially appear to be large flat areas of unmodulated color, and the way each color field is actually very subtly modulated (which is difficult to see here). The skin's shading is most notable, the hair has its red tints, while the background green has very slight hints of the red underpainting showing through.
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