Thursday, November 19, 2009

Two New Pastel Drawings of the Female Nude

Lovely, lovely model last night for our figure drawing group! Long limbs, elegant poses...wonderful "stage presence".  I was still a bit under the weather, but stayed long enough to do two drawings. 


The first is on Wallis paper.  I started with watercolor pencils and washed them with a wet brush, letting the paint drip a little.  I blotted lightly with a towel, and built up several layers of color - brown, blue, red and sap green (for no particular reason other than I liked those colors!)  I then switched to pastels and added some oranges, peaches, and prussian blue.  The face is a little hard to read in the photo, but in the drawing it has just enough info to indicate eyes, nose and lips.


The second drawing was a lot quicker, just a quick study using red, cream, and a couple light blues on mint pastel paper.  I've always loved the combination of red and mint green.

4 comments:

pegi said...

Glad you're feeling better! That figure drawing is amazingly beautiful. You used heavier hand.....are you on medicine? :)

kaslkaos said...

These are gorgeous. I love the liberal use of colour and style.

Linda Hammelman said...

Both are lovely, but Wow for the first one. The scarlet/orange is perfect.

Natasha said...

I am so happy I stumbled upon your blog. These are so beautiful. I am in awe.