There is no division of canvas or individual composition. The small canvases are placed together, treated as a large surface and readied for their backdrop. Playing with acrylic and using the wash technique, two to three colours are sponge rolled onto the canvases to give a compositional reference to the series.
Beginning with the most widely used colour, the artist confidently strokes his canvases with a bold sweep of his hand, stopping to survey his handiwork only after finishing his initial composition of the set.
Then comes the next much-in-use colour, followed by daubs of the highlight hues – setting the tone of his dialogue with the viewer.
Speculative and timid, each canvas sports a beige backdrop with a touch of grey-black, smeared with hues of bright red and golden yellow.
The artist now sets into motion the soft strokes of his brush and the contours of the face begin to appear.
A shaven head-oblong face-faraway eyes, the artist’s muse is a carefully chiselled male member of his imagination, whose facial expressions are putty in his strokes.
He then picks up the last colour – to execute his master stroke to completion.