Ask any alla prima artist about favorites--paintings in which drawing and value and composition came together in a symphony of elegant strokes and he or she will have a mental list. For Griffin Thibodeaux, "Nude of Blue Mat" is one of these "home run" paintings that come from the great mystery. It is a matter of getting in and out with a few strokes and then a suggestion of setting, left for the viewer to fill in with imagination. A small painting that might. be lost in a big setting, this painting does well to live in an intimate space where the gaze of the subject suggests infinite possibility.