A three-quarter left-profile ink portrait — the face in slight left three-quarter, the hair in a blunt bob or pageboy cut that falls straight from the crown to just below the jaw, the cut's clean geometric edge visible at the bottom of the hair mass. The hair is described with overlapping diagonal strokes that give it volume and the suggestion of weight — the marks running downward in the direction of the hair's fall, giving the bob a quality of density and mass. The face below is described with the nose prominent in partial profile, the eyes briefly indicated, the ear visible at the right.
The blunt bob haircut is among the most specifically period-identified hairstyles in the ink portrait series — associated with particular moments in the mid-twentieth century, the bob at its most geometric is a haircut that announces an era. The clean-cut lower edge of the hair — the blunt termination at jaw level — is described with a few horizontal marks at the bob's bottom edge, the cut's precision indicated by the evenness of the lower line.
The ink marks building the hair's volume — parallel diagonals in the direction of fall — are the portrait's most technically considered element, the marks not just describing where the hair is but how it moves, its weight and direction made visible through the marks' orientation. Among the ink portraits that attend to hair as a specific physical substance with its own qualities of weight and movement, this one is among the most attentive.