Another Bare Lady Painting (am I getting any better at this?)

Bare Lady Reclining

Well this week’s painting effort is shown. As always I found the drawing hard so, whilst bits of the picture might work OK on their own I don’t think they combine to make a believable human form as a whole. Something has gone a bit wrong with the relative positions of the head, shoulders and breasts, and the fore-shortened arm is much too small. That said, I do feel like I can see some progress at last. A few areas of the body have worked out quite well. One of the good things I learned in this lesson is to slap the paint on a bit thicker. We are using acrylics but the teacher said I was using it like watercolour and would I try using more paint. I am going to take her advice and thicken up my paintings from now on!

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.