Half-Finished Watercolour Portrait

Create one vertical 3:4 image: a half-finished watercolour portrait of the man in the attached photo, photographed on the slanted drawing board where it is being painted. The sheet of cream cold-press paper is taped down at its four corners with strips of beige masking tape and fills almost the whole frame; a brush rests across a glass jar of grey-blue water at the lower right corner and a small enamel palette with the same colours sits at the top edge, both slightly out of focus. Daylight from a window on the left falls across the board, so the paper has a gentle gradient, a faint shadow under the tape edges and a glint on the wet areas. On the paper the figure stands full length, head near the top edge, feet near the bottom. The painting carries his exact facial anatomy, proportions, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, jaw, cheeks, age, skin tone and any marks into loose watercolour so he is instantly recognisable; the medium changes the rendering, never the face. The upper two thirds are finished: a crisp white shirt with the sleeves folded to the elbow, a steel watch, hair brushed back from his natural hairline, beard trimmed neat. Head turned three-quarter toward the right side of the paper, chin level, eyes looking off past the right edge, not at the viewer, lips closed in a small assured smile. Right hand raised to the collar as if settling it, left arm relaxed at his side; two arms, two hands. Below the waist the cream veshti with its gold border is only half painted: the fold at the hip is a wet blue-grey wash still glossy, and from the knees down there are only light pencil lines with the sandals barely sketched. Three soft blots of marigold orange and sage green bleed from the figure's sides into the paper. No text, logo or watermark anywhere.