The shadow at the comic shop
A bearded man in a pink cap and a yellow shirt crouches among comic books scattered across the floor of a shop, one hand up against the window frame, while a caped figure sits in the foreground in complete shadow with the light coming past it. Only the cape and the hood are drawn — the rest is left black.
Two masses: the crouching figure small and lit in the left half, the shadow filling the right third and the whole foreground, with the shop window and the glass frontage holding the top of the picture.
Yellow, pink and tan in the lit figure against teal glass and a warm ochre floor, with the shadow in black and two blues.
Watercolour over ink. The shadow is laid in as one flat shape with the folds drawn into it in a darker blue, so it reads as a silhouette at any distance.
Watercolour and ink on paper.
Signed and dated along the lower edge.