Kaye Donachie's Malady of Death

I would apply these colours to highlight the uses in make up artists use today, such as contoring etc.

Glaswegian-born Donachie's fascination with heroines and literary inspiration runs throughout all her projects along with her subtle nods to romanticism making for a collection that is more "poetic than narrative" in effect. In her most recent exhibition at Maureen Paley, Donachie focused on the female character in Marguerite Duras' French novella The Malady of Death, in which a man pays a woman to stay with him by the seaside and teach him how to love. The ambiguities behind Donachie's brushstrokes create a world that is "part living, part dreaming", she says of the series. "In the paintings the character and the description of time and place drift between dream and reality, as the day passes into night. The paintings and drawings are structured like pages from a book but the play or script denies any linear narrative seeking to express evocative moments in time."

What I love about this is that her nose is highlighted. I love this idea and would like to apply it to insecurities in my portraits. I need to seriously consider incorporating monochrome into my work