Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Tough Guy

White-faced figure with slicked black hair wears bright red lips and a faint scowl.

This work on panel is by Tough Guy, 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. Overall, a blocky white head and neck sit against an olive-gray ground with scratched marks and blue patches at left. Black hair sweeps across the forehead, one eye is a dark hollow, and the red mouth is smeared sideways. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

The lipstick is the only thing in a hurry.