![female figure white arch gold background painting by Michelle Arnold Paine](https://michellepaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RedReachArch-Gold-IG1-sm-953x1024.jpg)
Since I recently began painting figures on metal leaf , I thought the “Red, White and Blue” exhibit would be a good moment to continue the challenge. In the drawings I leave the backgrond completely blank, allowing the lines to carry all of the expressive power of the figure. In a similar way, in the gold silhouettes I am using the gold for the negative space.