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"The Diary" -  Stanford University

This painting was an offshoot of sketches from "The Menu".

I experimented with many backgrounds. When I finally decided to mimic the chair pattern and create windows behind the model, I tried many angles of reflected images and finally decided to cheat and allow the viewer to see through the glass to a study with a book, lamp and chess board.

This painting