A Little Nude Therapy!!

I have done a few nudes recently as I have run two workshops where we used the same image Joanne had brought to her final Brusho workshop, she brought a selection of images and as I have done this one now a few times and both groups wanted a go at it when they saw my version, this is the one we did.

Just 3 colours used for this, ub, translucent orange and burnt sienna. The groups needed to do a bit of drawing first so we ran through a few pointers for where to place things, head size, where to put the feet, how the angle of her side means her waist is under her head etc etc. The image shows hands but am not keen on drawing those so left them out!!! And then I did a bit of painting to show them how I approached it... quite a lot of dry brush, fairly strong paint to start with,  then some edges softened, some kept harder. Everyone had a really good go and a lot of the students did the best I have seen from them in the whole time I have been tutoring... so we were all really pleased!!!

While on the subject of nudes I've had another image I have been wanting to do for a while, but not been sure how to tackle it... I really love nudes, painted, charcoal, pencil... doesn't matter what medium but wanted to try this one in watercolour....I wanted to create an atmospheric piece with a lot of light but wasn't sure quite how to do it, so started yesterday and was really close to abandoning but today decided to have a go at finishing it off and am quite pleased with the result...leaving it overnight gave me a renewed enthusiasm for it and allowed me to see it through new eyes, it wasn't good but the break away from it helped me see where I needed to adjust it. This one has taught me a huge amount..... I am delighted to have finished it and got what I think,  if not a masterpiece, is an acceptable painting which has achieved what I set out to do!!!