Nude Body - How to Paint Body No Scenery

Friends Resting

This watercolor painting may look a bit weird - where is the rest of it? Why are there parts that are detached? Does it make sense.

Yes, it makes sense to me. I decided to paint the Bodies of these 2 men without any clothes and without any furniture (pillows) that were surrounding them.

The man with just hands and face was wearing clothes; I just omitted that part of the painting. The nude man was leaning on a pillow and both were sitting on a sofa.

In the painting I chose to draw them in a variety of colors - but the orange hair I love the most.

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