Nyssa

This is part of my “Woman in…” series. When I painted this, I was thinking about what “intense” would look like.

When I think about someone who is intense, I think:

-About getting up in somebody’s face.

-About having so much energy & emotion, you can’t get the words out.

-It’s about burning up.

-It’s about burning out.

-It’s about being more than everything around you.

The hardest part of this painting was spent trying to get the right facial expression.

The hair actually has more detail/texture. I tried to balance the flatness of the grey background with the textured hair.

I started working on this in July and finished it in August. The time between idea and execution was really short.

I’ve been working on other canvases that are 30″ x 40″ and seem to take forever to finish. This painting is much smaller, and so it was quicker to paint. The canvas is 18″ x 24.” Acrylic on canvas.