MichaelWhelan ,
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SHE (2004)
Oil on Linen - 48" x 36"

A private commission for the book by H. Rider Haggard. 1/4

At the end of a long thin ramp of craggy rock, a woman trailing raven black hair casts a glance to the audience as she's poised with weight on her lead foot ready to launch into open air. Much of the painting is dark but a cone of light starting off-panel left highlights her lithe figure. Red background bleeds through thin skirts. The outline of her legs contrasts darkly against rippling folds. An updraft of air captured in the light around her sweeps upward to a hinted outline of mountains. Her arms are flung wide. A long veil wraps the side of her face, frames her chin, and billows out to where she holds the end loosely with the tips of her fingers. Wispy forward-arcing lines—jagged like an abstracted bolt of lightning—descend over her, curving back down to point to her lead knee.
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