Posts tagged ‘nude drawing’
Last Bare Lady of the Season
Last of the season, a bare lady drawn in sanguine
For the last class this term I decided to try sanguine. It didn’t smudge as easily as I expected, perhaps because it was a stick rather than actual sanguine. I will try the real thing next.
Reclining Nude of the Week
Yet Another Reclining Nude in Pastel
The product of this week’s Life Drawing class, another pastel drawing of a bare lady. The model said she was bored after about half an hour, but strangely I find I can do this class week after week and never get bored at all.
Another Bare Lady in Pastel
Reclining Nude
Somebody was kind enough to suggest this was a little bit like a Matisse. At least I got a slightly surreal quality from the purple paper and used a bit of pencil as well as the pastels. I think my pastels have been stored in the airing cupboard too long as they were much more crumbly than last time I used them. The brown thing isn’t really right. It was brown in reallity, but I didn’t know what colour to make it in the picture.
Bare Lady in Pastel
Willowy Nude in Colour
Last night’s class was a new challenge. The model had a pale complexion all over, made paler and greyer by the flourescent tube lighting, and we worked with white chalk, red, dark brown, pale flesh pastel on a light grey paper. I went for a more stylised and slightly abstract approach but I ‘m not sure if it worked really.
One for the ladies
In contrast to most of the other posts on here about life drawing this one has no bare lady. In fact it has no picture even as I haven’t got around to photographing it yet. Will do soon. Anyway it was definitely “one for the ladies” as the model this week was, in the teacher’s words, a “very well defined” young man.
As we have discussed before, surely the true purpose of Art is Bare Ladies. Fair enough to have a bloke once in a while I suppose, but really, who wants to see a naked guy?
One for the Ladies
Cold Studio
Rather chilly bare lady
Yes, another bare lady picture, and as some have noticed already, yes she is the same model. It was realy cold in the studio this week so she sat huddled up. I was trying to convey the cold in this picture.
We also did a head study but mine was unfinished and not so great so I have not posted it here.
Life Drawing – Another Bare Lady
Standing Nude, or Bare Lady with her Foot on a Tin of Paint
- Life study from in front and behind
Life Drawing Again – Another Bare Lady!
Another Bare Lady
OK the model at my life drawing class this week was a long slim willowy young lady. I couldn’t get the shape quite right but never mind, I think you get an overall impression. It was a pencil drawing, and unusually the teacher gave out teabags. All the fleshtones in the picture were added by dabbing with a damp teabag. Then once it was dry some highlights were picked out in white chalk.
There’s a joke in there somewhere but I’m not going to make it.
Life Drawing
Man in a Cap
Much to the amusement of my work colleagues I am taking an evening course in Life Drawing at Central St. Martin’s College. Of course I didn’t explain that to them right away. I started by telling them I had to leave the office on time because from 6 til 8.30 I would be staring at a bare lady. “What?!?!” They couldn’t believe it. “You mean NAKED? NUDE? Totally Naked?” Well, yes, all of these things. In reallity it’s not always a woman, and male or female, they are not always naked. Actually I quite quickly forget, or maybe rise above the whole nudity thing, because as soon as I start drawing I am trying to represent the curves and contours, lines and tones. I’m not great at it but slowly improving I think. Here are a couple of examples; a classic nude ”bare lady,” and a man who (I’m glad to say) kept his clothes on. It was quite cold in the studio last week!
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Nude Naked Bare Lady
