Borin Van Loon: Hyper-realistic selectivity

Panther (oil on board): self-promotion

It's an odd link, but this painting goes right back to an early painting: Jean Harlow (was it Dorothy Parker who said that Harlow was spelt with a silent 't'?) in it's design approach. I have always liked the idea of the isolation of rich detail against a flat background. As the eye focusses on the details, the brain fills in that which is not shown much better than if everthing is laboriously depicted.