Use luminous thin colour over a light painted ground, crisp observed contours and sustained fine painted detail across subject and setting. Keep local colours clear and materials distinct. The face must remain painted, and costume, hair colour and props stay true to the source. Translate big silhouette, pose and colour masses into thin luminous pigment and fine painted contours. Below fingertip scale: only these marks. Eyes/nose: medium-made, one medium-made highlight. Texture visible everywhere. Every detail stays fine painted work, strands as luminous contours and eye shine stays medium-made. A tall scene of a tall antique hourglass standing on rippled desert dunes, golden sand pouring through its neck, the sky behind it amber and rose at dusk, long shadows over the dunes; no people, luminous local colour over a light ground combines with sharply observed detail, the hourglass rising through the tall frame. No readable text, lettering, signs or logos anywhere; the picture fills the whole frame edge to edge, painted right to the borders with no blank margin, no checkerboard or transparency pattern.
Palette: gold, turquoise and rose; jewel bright, quiet.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame.
