Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: A+

Speckled face looks out from a dark ground chalked with letters and symbols.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. Because the skins are peeled up, anything painted on them is reversed, so he must write text backwards and paint a figure facing right if it is meant to look left. Close up, a round, cream and orange speckled face with a worried mouth sits in the center of a deep brown-black field. White scrawled letters, an A and other marks, drift across it like chalk on a board. Monogram at lower right. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Surrounded by homework, and visibly anxious about the grade.