PINK

Prelim:  7" x 8", graphite on bond
Final Drawing:  15" x 20", blue pencil and white acrylic on Rives BFK

Commissioned by Nylon Magazine to interpret the color pink.

James' comments from processrecess:

"While making this piece, I was thinking of Giuseppe Castiglione, a Italian missionary who lived in China and became famous for combining eastern and western pictorial convention and technique to great effect -- his work has the elegance and graceful composition of traditional Chinese scroll painting, but also the chiascuro and foreshortening of the old masters."