Nude at Night

Beauty !

I really like this series. I'd love to hear more about your process.

You're really starting to make a dent with these! I love how you experiment. Keep them coming!

Toffle said:

I really like this series. I'd love to hear more about your process.

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I've been using liquid emulsions, on textured watercolor paper, for my nude series. Occasionally, my coatings are no good (especially on the large 16x20 papers). Rather than throw the poor ones away, I save them to test paint colors. The other day, I saw all of these abstract shapes (in the first one I posted), and decided to complete the abstract, filling in the grays with color. I found it interesting, so did another, and another... This one is part of a large nude reject. I knew the body shape was there, so I used pencil to graph her body. I paint the squares with oils, using Q-tips, wiping them in with cotton balls. I used a deep blue for the negative space to give it a night sky feel. I like the balance between the pos/neg space in this one.

this is KILLER
it must be even more beautiful in person !
looking forward to the next --- J

Love what you have done with this - Martin