Long Face 2. Painting, acrylic on canvas with gold leaf detail 40 x 50cm. The idea started with the Long Face Candlestick, where her face image is dominated by a single, symmetrical eye and her mouth delineates the bottom edge of the picture. The large painting format enables a deeper study of personality. I wanted to use gold leaf on the earring, which places decoration above representation, but then Gustav Klimt did okay with that…