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The main theme of this painting is foreshortening- using my hand to demand attention from the viewer and pushing perspective with texture in the front of the painting and a flat background towards the back. The piece has a very specific color palette with illuminating colors like pale orange, bold magenta, and light violet. Some areas are lightly defined and reveal the underpainting while others give the illusion of detail and express an overwhelming amount of color and value. The bright light blue of the rings is a continued theme through the halo above the girl’s head to emphasize the importance of that bright blue in the composition of the painting. The warm and cool color palette emphasize the polarization of her imagination. The gestural mark-making juxtapose with the articulate and descriptive edges push and pull the real with fantasy. The pose and body language of the girl is both deep in thought and confidently aware of her surroundings, and the halo above her emphasizes this self-proclaimed worth she possesses. She is both fantastical and certain.