without a safety net

As I'm still intrigued with Claudia's pose, I've been working on this version of it.

The title: Claudia's pose is tense, dynamic and, I am sure, excruciatingly painful if held for any length of time. -Yet she nails it and she holds it! Also the paper and media I used are absolutely unforgiving. The paper so absorbent and fragile there's no lifting of a color once laid, the mediums mostly too transparent to hide any earlier mistakes,

I told Claudia, in a comment in the Occidental Orient post, that I was working on this and subsequently figured I'd better finish it before I screw it up. Hardest part of painting is knowing when to stop! :-)

This is mixed media on 8.5"X12" handmade Japanese washi, paper (Made in the shop/factory on Shikoku Island that you may have seen in an earlier photo here on my site.)

Mixed media: Yarka watercolors, Dewent Inktense water soluble pencils, Caran D'Arche Neocolor II crayons, KohI-Noor woodless color pencils.

...and... the hardest part of writing about it is knowing when to stop too! I wanna 'splain why I chose to sit Claudia on a avocado puke green throw tho it jars with the other colors big time... and how the picture changes under different light sources & how etc., etc., etc -but I'll shut up...now.