What Do You Mean? I Am Smiling art00218328 soft sky blues and earthy

soft sky blues and earthy olives add texture and depth

earthy red that contrasts with the neutral background

The colour palette delves deep into rich dark greens

The image itself

Fowler encourages us to delve deeper into our responses

What Do You Mean? I Am Smiling art00218328 soft sky blues and earthySize: 28 x 34 in. Lee Elliss original painting What do you mean? I am smiling (24" x 30") captures a striking balance of irony and melancholy, wrapped in his characteristically bold style. Against a flat turquoise background, a monochrome face emerges, rendered in raw, expressive strokes of charcoal and paint. The subject wears a bright yellow striped garment and a comic red party hat, its surface patterned with pizza like dots, while a round red