Nudes in watercolours - and more...

 

Sue had no previous experience, but clearly enjoyed painting her nude! It worked out really well, the fun is clearly visible and the brushstroke like you would expect from Sue, loose and adventurous. Special compliment for the excellent colours!

 

 

Number Fifteen of the weekly Watercolour challenge was 'painting nudes' and most of the Aquarellistas were not very much into it! But the ones who were, created excellent and interesting work. As you can see above and below! 

Vanessa created this beautiful painting of a female model in a stretched, standing pose. A brave choice, because that is difficult proportion-wise! She's done a good job on it, on the skin colour and especially on the shine on that bod!!

 

Anna Karin created this fantastic moving page, in her signature style. She remarked that she finds it easier to draw a real life model than from a picture. That may be because a picture is flat and doesn't move. For others that is an advantage - it all depends on preference!

 

Sandra is an experienced life drawer, but she felt inspired for painting ballet dancers, the pain, the muscle tension, and the apparent lightness of it. I am in awe - and the last one (on the right is my favourite... Yours?
 

 

Michele took Matisse (and maybe a bit of Yves Klein) as inspiration for her nude  and created a stylized version, that would look fantastic as a print, or on a really big scale!

 

Judith created several versions from colourful and pretty much realistic to extremely simplified in Miro style, but decided for the one above, a sitting pose of a male model. Her other excellent  result was the self portrait! I am in awe about this one. It is the light above the right eye that makes it 'her'. Well done.

 

In the meantime...

 

Celina is back in Oslo, with her materials this time (I guess) and she painted this lovely and funny portrait of a Christmas Kitty. Don't mistake The Look for admiration of all the lights and glitter: the black eyes mean mischief and plans to jump the tree and get as many of the spheres out as possible in one sweep of the paw 😁

There is an update to Sandras painting that I find nteresting: now that she added a simple background , it is as if the Geisha is walking, with tiny steps.

 

Sandra also produced a couple of watercolours, above lightly inspired by the brilliant Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - and below inspired by her own painting. She wonders what the curls below signify -  I see seals moving away... what do you see?

 

 

And remember Cari?  A friend of Leonie, she joined us temporarily and created all kinds of paintings - but now, back in the UK, has become very 'botanical'... her beautiful asparagus are in the Cookbook - and here is some recent work: