Orange You Glad I Like Nudes?

I crack myself up! This little nude took all of two minutes to paint. Usually I paint the model with just water on my brush. It's a little hard to see what I'm doing, but the idea is to get the silhouette. Then, I drop in color where the shadows are. Sometimes they look really great, like this one!

In the Garden with Egon Schiele

I was looking at a photo of a watercolor by Egon Schiele entitled "Sunflowers" while painting this nude. I used his color palette and some of his forms while painting the nude model. This was an exercise we did in the life drawing class that I attend each week. I want to do this one again but on a larger scale.

Frottage and Nude Together

Frottage is a rubbing over something with texture to make a print. In this case, the something was a paper lace doily that I put under a piece of watercolor paper and rubbed with a gold metallic wax crayon. Then I painted the blue nude.

It Might Have Choked Arty...

But it didn't choke me! This is a lithograph (series of 6) that I did some years ago. I'm thinking of adding watercolor to each one, or maybe just five of them.