Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Turning Vanilla

Calm, long-necked head with coral lips rests on a split cream and white ground.

This work on panel is by Turning Vanilla, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. Mark Westervelt is an American painter trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Chicago, whose work has come to include a variety of mediums over his career. The head and neck are drawn in a heavy black line, with fine pencil shading around the eyes. The lips are coral-orange. The ground shifts from warm cream at left to chalky white at right, and a monogram sits low right. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Composed, long-necked, and dressed only in line.