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A loose watercolour portrait sketch on cold-press paper, portrait format, with visible pencil underdrawing and unpainted white paper at the edges. A South Asian man in his forties, a school librarian, stands between two tall shelves holding a stack of returned books against his chest, reading the spine of the top one over his half-moon glasses. Short greying hair, a neat salt-and-pepper beard, a mustard knitted vest over a pale blue shirt with rolled sleeves, a pencil tucked behind one ear. The books and shelves are suggested in quick washes of ochre, brick red and teal, soft blooms where the colours meet, the face painted with more care and warmth. Light and lively, the kind of sketch done on location. No readable titles or text.