Expressionist painting with forceful brushwork, emotionally chosen color and intentional distortion of shape; subjects may be re-posed to suit the style. Resemblance sits in big, emotionally colored masses. People keep their build and face shape in blocky planes of clashing warm and cool paint: eyes and brows as dark forceful marks with one paint-made highlight, noses and lips as a few loaded strokes, skin in broken patches of heightened color, hair in thick directional strokes. Animals keep their anatomy, coats in dabbed strokes that follow their markings. Below fingertip scale everything is brushwork on rough canvas. No photographic detail, crisp strands, glossy eye reflections or text. A tall scene of a lone surfer on a board catching a massive blue wave as the sun sets on the horizon, spray flying and a golden orange sky; one distant figure only, forceful brushwork and emotionally chosen colour, the wave towering up the tall frame. No readable text, lettering, signs or logos anywhere; the picture fills the whole frame edge to edge, painted right to the borders with no blank margin, no checkerboard or transparency pattern.
Palette: orange, cobalt and white foam; thrilling, bold.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame.
