Nude Painting - The Body in Watercolor

                                                         Hiding

This is a pose that I took out of Lucian Freud's collection of Nude Paintings. I think it is a wonderful pose. 

She does not want to be seen. She does not want to see. She is upset and needs time to herself.

This is one of my favorite nude paintings for I feel the choice of colors play a major role in portraying her.

I love the flow of the hair and the color that I was able to create. I the color of the body how the different shades are the to show off the skin and hair.

The curves of the body are shown off wonderfully - the color grey and purple - both warm and cold at the same time.

Watercolor on cotton paper - 30 cm x 40 cm

Nude Paintings - The Naked Body

Today I uploaded into Slideshare a new presentation - Nude Paintings in Original Watercolors . I uploaded my collection of work that was inspired by Lucian Freud's paintings.

I am especially enchanted by paintings that relate to the naked body. What I have seen is that when he has someone pose for him he does not paint the person as he looks in the mirror but rather he extenuates a feature and turns it into a highlight.

This pose of a lady was taken from one of his books. She is looking straight at him and he chooses to paint her with little flesh and lots of bones - a very thin portrayal of the real her.

Did any of you get this same feeling?

Male Dancer - In the Nude

                                                      In the Nude

A dancer is a man that works hard at developing his body and his dance skills. In this pose you are able to both his dancing skills and how hard he worked and keeps working on keeping his body fit.

I have a lot of respect for dancers and their abilities. It is a hard profession and a very rewarding profession.

This painting is quite intricate. It is layers of black watercolor on very white paper and layers of black ink. The depth of the muscles and length of the body is extensively expressed.

The painting is on 100% white cotton paper - 30 cm by 40 cm.