A large horizontal pencil reclining figure drawing with an unusual addition: small spots of yellow-green paint or pastel scattered across the lower portion of the composition. These spots — too regular and too intentional to be accidental — are the only instance of added color in any figure drawing. They are not part of the figure itself; they appear to be the residue of another work session on the same paper, or a deliberate addition Sidney made.
The figure is described with sustained tonal pencil work: the reclining body filling the upper portion of the horizontal paper, the face at the right barely visible as the head turns, the body's back and hip the most described zones. The shoulder area is the most tonally built: shadow accumulating in multiple overlapping passes.
At the right, the head and the mass of the arm and shoulder create a complex compressed form — the body folded against itself at the top before extending to the left. The lower body is more lightly described, the forms suggested through lighter marks.
The yellow-green spots in the lower composition create an accidental dialogue between the pencil figure and these color notes — as if the figure rests on a ground that the drawing hasn't described.