来自加利福尼亚的艺术家Kai Samuels-Davis 将线性绘画笔触和大量颜色分层，形成可识别为面部的形状，但也传递出了传统肖像画中所见的所有视觉信息。艺术家依靠这个过程来寻找图像，通常从草图或简单的圆圈开始，以构建面部。艺术家在表现性和表现性之间的空间中工作，能够通过抽象来关注情感，以便观众通过每个手势和彩色笔触形成自己的叙事。
None of the final aesthetic is planned, Each mark, brush stroke and color is a reaction to what came before it. When I’m working on a portrait the subject appears to morph between multiple individuals over the course of the painting, often times becoming slightly androgynous in the process. I tend to bounce around the surface a lot, pushing and pulling between background and subject, painting over parts, figuring out what each piece needs until there’s nothing I would change.
