Judge's Comments:The notan structure of this painting is interesting, with the vertical light blue shape of the light on the figure in the reflection dividing the space of the painting into two middle gray shapes. The dominant value in this notan structure is gray, with the sub-dominant value of light. The color harmony is a triadic red, yellow and blue (if one of these colors had been less saturated, it would have improved the color harmony). The repeated red shapes (with slight variations in temperature) are a nice design element to keep the viewer's eye moving around the painting, but perhaps the red trousers are attracting too much attention away from the nicely painted center of interest which is the head and upper back of the figure. - Barry John Raybould
