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.