A back-view standing figure in green chalk on white paper — the format shift back to 12.5"×19" from the 9.5"×25" sheets marking the opening of what the handoff notes identified as the third Color Pastel portfolio. The figure stands facing away, the head barely visible above the shoulders with close-cropped or pulled-back hair indicated by a few marks, the body descending from the neck in a clean back-view profile: shoulders, the waist's narrowing, the broad buttock curve, the legs below. One arm extends slightly away from the body at the left, the elbow near the paper's left edge.
The green chalk on the 12.5"×19" format reads differently from the same medium on the 9.5"×25" sheets: the figure is shorter and wider relative to the paper, less columnar and more expansive. The chalk here is a bright, vivid green — brighter than the Work 1414 and 1430 green chalk works, suggesting a different chalk stick or fresher application — and the marks are applied with confidence and some interior elaboration. The buttock zone receives the most specific interior attention: the cleft between the buttocks and the fold beneath each cheek are described with brief parallel marks, the most anatomically specific treatment of this body zone in the new portfolio.
The back view as the opening image of a new portfolio sub-series echoes the back view as a recurring starting point in the figure drawing tradition: presenting the body without the face's psychological complexity, establishing the body as form and shape before engaging with it as presence. Work 1411 (the narrow-strip spine study), Work 1416 (the ochre back), Work 1421 (the wide stance), Work 1425 (the tonal back), and now Work 1436 each open or anchor sub-sequences with the back view, the pose functioning as a kind of structural reset.
The bright green of this chalk against the white paper — more saturated than the greens of 1414, 1427, or 1430 — gives the figure a vivid, almost declarative quality. The third portfolio opens with a back view that asserts the medium's color rather than softening it. The green back, after the ink dancer of 1431 and the ghostly blue of 1435, reads as a return to chromatic confidence and bodily presence. The 12.5"×19" format signals a new portfolio chapter.