I recently had my braces removed and I was reminded of this little watercolor study. Made about a year ago, in anticipation of a new oil painting that never got made. This one would have been based on the toothaches my braces often gave me.
These are a series of watercolor paintings based on self clarity. The idea behind them was to illustrate a progression of completion from the first one to the last one. Not in terms of whether the piece is finished or not but in terms of the figures' own clear depiction. This was meant to mirror my own clarity at the time when these were made.