PP36 XS10-The girl next door (17x21cm)

A large place is made in white on the paper to call the model’s skin and porcelain complexion. Red ink stains more or less diluted tending towards a controlled pink. Some discreet annotations with very fine lead, transcriptions of the oral exchanges between the painter and the model during the painting session...

Theme: Flowing painting XS

Series: Presence painting PP36XS 
Number: 10/14
Title: PP36 XS10-THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
Date of completion: 2010

Place of realisation: Paris-Marais
Signature: JS signature in lead pencil bottom right - James Arax on the back 
Mixed technique: Lead pencil & ink on paper
Support: Paper I Size: 17x21cm-6,7x8,3in I Format: XS

...During the PRESENCE PAINTING performance, James always makes a series of small drawings on paper with the still fresh paint from the MATRIX presence painting (200x170cm), here "PP36 - The girl next door"

Each paper feeds on the matrix, it updates the energy of the matrix in a new creation.