Painting Oil & Paint on Board by Mark Westervelt: Untitled, Framed

A figure made of what the palette left behind, and rather elegant about it.

This untitled painting by Mark Westervelt is made with oil and paint chips on board. Assembling an image from dried flakes of paint turns the leftovers of the studio into the subject itself, a long-standing appeal of collage for painters. On a sage green ground, a slim white form with a yellow hand and detached head walks on thin ocher strokes. To the right, a mottled gray and brown column rises with small leaf shapes beside it. Ten inches high and seven wide.

Nothing in the studio, apparently, is ever really wasted.