Nude Painting - How to Paint the Body

Red Head

Here is a lady painted in the nude in watercolors. This is not your typical watercolor painting of a landscape or of a city view but rather of a woman. A woman in all her beauty.

To paint the nude body the proportions and the curves and the ability to show the muscle tones are what is really going to make your painting successful and attractive. This painting is not of the classical Barbie doll but rather of a real woman that maybe already gave birth; that has experienced life and her body has reacted to it.

I love the pose and I love they way it all came together.

In this painting I chose to draw her in purples, blues, grey and browns with a distinct highlight of red.

This painting was inspired by one of Lucian Freud's oil paintings. This painting is watercolor paints and pencils on paper 30cm x 40cm.

Look at the sections for paper and paints to see which I strongly recommend.