A study drawn from the panel's palette card, at its real 30 × 30 cm proportions. Photography follows when the piece is photographed under the north window.

The studio mark, painted. An annular eclipse leaves a ring of fire; here the ring is glass glitter rationed to a single line.

• Ink petrol#080D13
• Moon oat#F2EFE8
• Corona silver#AEB2B5

1. Cradled birch panel, two sealed gesso coats
2. Oat ground feathered to the wood at the edges
3. The disc, masked and floated in ink
4. Glass glitter set into the corona ring only
5. Resin dome over the disc