This painting is part of a series of portraits created during the pandemic of friends and family using a very narrowed focus, paring things down to just hands or feet. So much about a person is in the details of their hands, in everyday choices like jewelry or nail polish (or lack of those things) but also callouses, scars, tattoos - the ways in which we wear the moments of our lives.
"Cara + K" attempts to convey the subject's emotions and identity through the narrowed focus of hands. Trying to preserve the drawing within the painting, the graphite remains visible through an open grisaille style of oil painting, leaving highlights bare and using a very limited palette.

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