Nude a day 60: Two three-minute poses

News!  Jeanie is currently running a "How to Draw" people class on Youtube.  First lesson is here and you can follow the series from her channel "Colourfulworld of Jeanie" (Non-English people note the "u" in "Colourful"!!)

I like these two poses showing the model's graceful figure.

Nude a day - Last one today|

After 60 nude,s one every day in January and February I am ending this series today Feb 29th 2020.  There will be occasional posts on this blog over the next months - some nudes, some other things.  Thanks to everyone who looked at this series. Let me know if you have enjoyed them.

Two videos about drawing

Video 1: Watch this - and start drawing

 

To mark the end of the series Jeanie has produced another video encouraging everyone to draw.  It includes her drawing an under 2-minute sketch of her husband Nick. See below.

 

The 2-minute picture that Jeanie draws in this video

 Video 2: How to draw nudes

This video shows how Jeanie went about this drawing. She drew two very quick pictures, one of which is shown above. They demonstrate gesture drawing.

One of the 2 quick pictures Jeanie draws in this video

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 59: Crouching in evening sunlight

Pastel on sand coloured pastel paper.

This was a short pose but a complex one with the sun lighting her up from behind.  I like it.

Nude a day - ending in tomorrow 

After 60 nudes Jeanie will end this series on Feb 29th 2020.  There will be occasional posts on this blog - some nudes, some other things. 

Two videos about drawing

 

The quick gesture drawing I do during the video

Video 1: Watch this - and start drawing

To mark the end of the series Jeanie has produced another video encouraging everyone to draw.  It includes her drawing an under 2-minute sketch of her husband Nick. See above.

One of the two quick pictures I draw during the video

  

Video 2: How to draw nudes

This video shows how Jeanie went about this drawing. She drew two very quick pictures, one of which is shown above. They demonstrate gesture drawing.

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 58: Extreme perspective

I find it exciting to see the extreme difference in size of the legs, so close up, and the head, so small and distant.

Nude a day - ending in two days! 

After 60 nudes Jeanie will end this series on Feb 29th 2020.  There will be occasional posts on this blog - some nudes, some other things. 

Two videos about drawing

Video 1: Watch this - and start drawing

To mark the end of the series Jeanie has produced another video encouraging everyone to draw.  It includes her drawing a 2-minute sketch of her husband Nick. See below.

The 2-minute picture drawn in the video

 Video 2: How to draw nudes

This video shows how Jeanie goes about drawing nudes. She draws two very quick pictures, one of which is shown below.

 

One of 2 pictures dawn in this video

 

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 57: The first woman on earth

Pastel on black pastel paper

This was an experiment – pastel on black pastel card, using a lot of light ochres and tangerines as flesh tones. I allowed the black card to take the shadow areas. All the colours behind her are singing out loudly over the black surface. It's good to let the lovely vibrant pastels glow like this!

Nude a day - ending in three days! 

After 60 nudes Jeanie will end this series on Feb 29th 2020.  There will be occasional posts on this blog - some nudes, some other things. To mark the end of the series Jeanie has produced another video encouraging everyone to draw.  It includes her drawing a 2-minute sketch of her husband Nick.  Take a look on the link above

 Video of how I draw nudes

Click on the start arrow to see the video. The picture drawn in this film is shown below.

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

 

Nude a day 56 – Stretching on a pink quilt

35 x 25 cm Pastel on dark green pastel paper.

Unusually, I have not included the paper colour for tones. I have obliterated all the paper colour with light orange-yellow pastel and darker cool colours with white for highlights.

This pose shows the amazing suppleness of the model's body!

See my video on how I draw nudes at https://youtu.be/E2BjhefGGGk

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 53 – Today is my best day

40 x 29.5 cm Charcoal on white paper.

A 20 minute sketch. I like the way the model looks purposeful and happy.

See my video on how I draw nudes at https://youtu.be/E2BjhefGGGk

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 51 Clasping her knee

15.5 x 36.5 cm Charcoal on peach coloured paper

I like the strong drawing of the body. Hatched charcoal is used to create the shadows.

See my video on how I draw nudes at https://youtu.be/E2BjhefGGGk

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 50: Thinking of you

26 x 39 cm. Pastel on blue-green paper.

The painting uses the blue-green paper colour as the shadow colour of the flesh. I like the light soft colours of this gentle picture.

See my video on how I draw nudes at https://youtu.be/E2BjhefGGGk

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 47 Right hand over my shoulder

 

Pastel and water-based paints - AquaBrique

Recently working on this charcoal study I used AquaBriques:

1. As crayon lines
2. As raw strokes of green and raw sienna on the flesh
3. As dilute washes on the hair and the foreground.

I think this is a good example of using them in three ways. What's good is you can work into a charcoal drawing with strong contrasts and colour.  I chose this viewpoint because I liked to see the model's hand against her hair.

See my video on how I draw nudes at https://youtu.be/E2BjhefGGGk

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude on Valentine's day

Nude a day 40: Today I'll meet my friends

Pastel on cream water-colour paper 34 x 28cm

I like the unfinished look and the bright colours.

Look at my "how-to" video

See how I draw charcoal nudes and learn how you could too!

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 39: First light of Dawn

Charcoal on white paper 40 x 24 cm

Study in charcoal on white paper, simply stated shadow areas sometimes smudging in with my finger. See her left shoulder, breast and her right thigh.

New Video 

Watch this new "how to" vid and start drawing charcoal nudes.

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 38: Fast asleep

Pastel on cream water-colour paper 42 x 23 cm

This one gives us a good display of the model's tattoos!

New Video

Just completed this "how to" video.  Take a look!

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 37: Getting up slowly

Brown pastel on white paper 37 x 30 cm

I found this an intriguing pose. It was as if she had her back turned to me but became interested in something in a different direction.

New Video of how I paint nudes 

Click on the video above.

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 36: Reading the paper

Pastel on sand coloured pastel paper 26 x 30 cm

I like the overall softness, the delicate colours and the suggestion rather than the sharply defined features. Like a soft summer haze, this is how it turned out.

NEWS

Video of how I draw nudes - on line now! Click above

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

 

Nude a day 33: In dreamland with red curls

Pastel on water colour paper 21 x38 cm

Here's anther pastel on white paper (not a good choice.) I like the intense dark blue background and the very light ice-blue version of it on the quilt. The hips make a lovely undulating line. I can see them as a huge garden sculpture, or the line of hills in a landscape, foliage in the foreground. I love the effects the rough surface of the paper gives.

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 29 Light-hearted thoughts

Water soluble crayons and water. 24 x 49 cm

Often I imagine what the model is thinking or saying and that becomes the title, as it has here. Did you look at “Nude a day 22 Arm on Red bar”? I used these water soluble crayon blocks, called “Aqua Brique” for the first time on that painting, and I've used them here for the second time. They were very different from anything I have used before. I marked the paper with the block . There was an explosion of colour as I touched the marks with water, a wonderful volcanic eruption of art.

On this picture I used subtlety (you WHAT!!??) and moments later I ran parts of the picture under a gentle stream of tap water. I enjoy these sorts of adventures. The colours are very crude. Enjoy, (especially my granddaughter Natasha and my niece Sophie who like coloured nudes.)

For a description of Aqua brique see https://www.cretacolor.com/en/products/water-soluble-blocks-of-color

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

 

Nude a day 28: Curly hair on top

Charcoal. 20 x 27 cm

A two-minute pose. Very quick just time to put the basics down with a stick of charcoal. Please excuse the crumpled paper.

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 25: Cheek on my arm

Charcoal on white paper. 25.5 x 40 cm

Charcoal is so versatile and will give you all the depths and subtleties of a black and white photograph. The black can be so intense a black and the delicate softest smudges like a faint drift of smoke almost invisible, fine and delicate. You can draw with so delicate a touch the charcoal almost floats over the surface or with such energy the charcoal splutters into fragments as you draw the fine line. Yet it is so very inexpensive. Sometimes I draw with a chunk out of a spent bonfire. That is so unpredictable, it is quite an adventure. The final result can be fixed with an aerosol spray. The drawing will not fade or darken for an extremely long time.

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colourful World of Jeanie"

Nude a day 23: Tonight I'll go dancing

Charcoal, 29.5 x 41 cm

Sitting on a low stool with ankles crossed. I really liked this pose. It showed the beauty of the human body. I feel pleased to have the opportunity to do what I do.

I hope you have liked the pictures so far. If you liked any of them enough, you can buy the original: £100 unframed plus P & P. Email me for more information at nandnjmellersh@yahoo.co.uk.

Anyway, please let me know what you think by commenting either on the blog or by email to me at the address above. As we did last year we will raffle away two prints among those who comment. So start commenting for a chance for a prize.!)

Jeanie Mellersh

My Links: Art - www.jeanie.mellersh.org.  Videos about my life"Colour