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