another nude

Dancers

Reclining Nude Finished

Another "Venus" layer

skin and sky

One more layer to go!

"Venus" progress

Rework the water

add dark skin tones

almost done!

Reclining Nude - WIP

First the basic block-in

some background development and skin tone

Filling in the background

Notice how the darker background makes the skin colors appear much paler...now to re-adjust! I prefer to establish the background early on, but wasn't sure what I wanted.

developing mrs. deering

                            To the left, basically a B & W copy of the original by John Singer Sargent

Mrs. Charles Deering - after Sargent *WIP*

First a detailed drawing to inform hand/eye/mind

simple outline transferred to canvas

raw umber wash

start finding shapes

continue to block in value shapes

lose and find features

start adding lights

to be continued....

some recent sketches