

Location: the whole picture is one large sheet of drawing paper with visible tooth and grain, almost entirely bare and white: a low branch reaches in over her from one edge, drawn as a few long thin searching pencil lines with a scatter of single loose leaf strokes, running out into empty paper, with construction lines, faint erased ghosts and finger smudges; only the two or three leaves directly under her brush have been carried to a finish, worked and shaded and rubbed with grey wash, and the rest of the branch is bare line; the ground is not drawn and is left as white paper; the environment is rendered in grey graphite and grey wash on white paper, while Hanne's skin retains its natural warm, lifelike tone Position: a camera looking down on her from above: she is lying flat on her back on the bare paper with her head tipped back and her chin up, one knee bent up with the foot flat and the other leg straight, and her drawing arm reaching straight up above her face so the brush touches the underside of a leaf; from the waist down she is carried to a finish and she is wearing loose trousers, fully drawn, shaded and rubbed with grey; from the waist up her body is a bare contour only, several faint searching pencil lines lying close together with the paper left completely empty inside them, no shading, no tone and no clothing at all, so that her outlined ribs, her breasts and her shoulders are line and empty paper; the one exception above the waist is her raised working arm and her face, which are fully drawn, modelled, shaded and warm; the finish ends at her shoulder and at her waistband with a soft ragged edge; her long hair is spread out on the paper above her head in bare contour lines; the warm tones on the sheet are her face and that one raised arm Clothing: the only clothing in the picture is the loose trousers on her finished lower half, drawn in open hatching and rubbed with grey; above the waistband there is only bare contour line and empty paper