An upper-body portrait presents a young East-Asian woman with an otherworldly elegance. She is framed at eye-level in a close-up shot, with her face turned slightly to the viewer’s left, her gaze directed toward the viewer while her shoulder points forward. The subject has short hair, with choppy, dark umber blue strands and a single prominent ahoge. Her complexion is pale porcelain and her face features large purple irises with vertical slit pupils. A small, scale-like, teal-blue hair ornament shaped like a bugle-like flower is secured above her right temple. She wears a high-collared dark blue one-piece dress with translucent watercolor sleeves. A delicate buddleia (flower) pattern in lighter blue is dispersed over the bodice and collar, and a matching stylized blossom tattoo sits at the nape of her neck. She is depicted wearing a simple Chinese-style headdress attached to two small, dark-blue dragon horns curling backward from her temples. Behind her neckline, a single, dark cerulean dragon tail curves gracefully around the left side of the frame. The artwork is executed with soft watercolor brushstrokes cascading into translucent washes, creating broad color bleeding and subtle layered stains over the rough paper texture. The artist has utilized this medium to convey a dreamy quality of fluid vivid colors like ultramarine blue, violet, and iridescent pearl, blended with the tonal qualities of the stellate dragon features.
