Work on Paper by Mark Westervelt: Blue Lotus

Seated meditating figure shares a sky-blue sheet with a strip of tiny pagodas.

This work on paper is by Blue Lotus, and is ca. 1998. It is paint & mixed media on paper. 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. A robed figure sits with folded hands, outlined in dark line against a dusty blue ground, with a small gold topknot. A collaged strip at left shows black-and-white pagoda rooftops above green foliage. Lower down, blue carries faint circular flower stamps. It is 5 inches wide and 7 high.

Serene company, with a landscape pasted in for scenery.