The second teal-ground work — a crouching or squatting figure in left-back view, the knees bent and the body gathered, the back presented as the composition's primary form. The head is visible at the upper left, the hair loosely described. The legs below the crouching body are described with both contour and shadow marks, the inner knee zone receiving brief hatching that gives the crouching form its specific compression. The feet at the lower edge are given brief marks.
The crouching posture on the teal ground connects this figure to the forward-fold series (Works 1501 and 1526) in its physical compression, but here the compression is lateral — the body gathering width rather than folding forward. The back view of the crouching figure presents the back's curve and the buttock as the body's widest and most prominent elements, the form's organic mass filling the vertical center of the 9.25 by 12.5 sheet.
The red on teal chromatic relationship is identical to Work 1561 but here the composition's orientation — vertical rather than horizontal — gives the teal ground more presence above and below the figure, the figure reading as a concentrated mark of warmth in a field of cool. The three teal works (1561, 1562, 1563) were clearly produced in the same session with the same materials, the teal paper serving as the ground for a sustained experiment in color-ground figure drawing.