Green Room, Pink Man

 

 Another print that started out as one of August's life drawings. The original drawing was done quickly with brush and ink after I had worked the pose to death over the previous hour or so. It was like I had internalised the essence of the picture and could now splurge it on to the paper. I kept fairly close to the drawing for the print, except for the plant which is now far more luxuriant than the sorry specimen suffering in a school art-room. I also wanted to print it in green and blue, and jokingly call it "Green Man". But that didn't work. So pink and green. Meat and veg, as it were. The yellow stripe refers to the suboptimal lighting in the room, with the summer sun shining over the model's shoulder, and the rather poor yellow light in the room.  But it also, I think, helps to balance the picture somewhat.

I arrived at Green Room, Pink Man as a basic descriptive title (which I find often works), but I feel it also has an implication of "The Green Room" as a somewhat debauched space and that "Pink Man" is an assertion worth making in these identitarian days.