Lisa Braun - Hanging out with Winnie the Pooh

The oil paint, applied with coarse brushstrokes, is runny in places, drippingin others and changing from ocher and burnt terra di siena to darker browns and delicate magenta. It is a color composition of expressive painting combined with a foreshortening of perspective that gives the work depth. The painting is spontaneous and direct, the subject fades into the background in places. It is a portrait of a young woman who turns and looks in the direction where the light comes from. Light and shadow strongly contrast and define the forms. In the background lingers Winnie the Pooh, ever present in her life, a sign of tenderness she cannot do without.