Nude a week 11 (again!): Back view

 

 

Backview 15 minute pose done in sanguine conte

This was a back view sketch done in sanguine conte.  It was a 15 minute pose.

Apologies for the duplication of the picture yesterday!

Nude a week 11: Two poses on one piece of paper

Conte crayon on paper

Sorry we posted this one before!  A new one will go up today!

This was a very slender model who was extremely supple. The drawings were done in Grass Valley California.  This model got into some very unusual poses and I really enjoyed drawing her.  If the poses are short, I often draw several on one piece of paper as there is no time to change the paper.

Nude a week 10: Happy nude year!

Conté sketch of man kneeling and playing dice.

This sketch, drawn in three minutes using Sanguine Conté, puts me in mind of an ancient Greek concentrating as he makes a move playing a board game or throwing a dice on the ground.

A new year of nudes.  If Nick has got the coding right, this will appear on my Facebook page and my Facebook friends will have the benefit of the "Nude a week" that I'm putting up on my blog at the moment. (Nick got it wrong last time and the last post appeared on his Facebook page.)

Nick and I both wish you a happy nude year!!

Nude a week - extra: An ipad painted nude - and an experiment to see if this connects to Facebook

Reclining nude painted on the ipad with simulated chalk and pastel - drawn using the Artrage app.

This nude is called "extra" because it is an experiment to see if it will link up to Facebook.  And Nick is writing the blurb not Jeanie.

Jeanie finds her ipad a wonderful thing for drawing.  You can take it out with you and you have a whole art-store full of supplies.  You can choose pastel, charcoal, oil, or whatever and any colour that the eye can see. The downside is the reflective screen which makes it really impossible to work in strong sunlight.  In time, no doubt, ipads will have an e-ink screen like the Kindle and that problem will go.  Another plus for the ipad, if you are drawing people or scenery, is that you can photograph the subject with the ipad and compare the painting with the photo.

There are half a dozen or more good apps for drawing on the ipad.  This drawing was done with Artrage which like most of the computer-originated art programs (particularly Painter) emulates physical media.  Brushes, the most famous drawing app, gives you a choice of different drawing options and does not equate them with physical art media.  Brushes was used by  Hockney for his ipad paintings. It was developed originally for the iphone and moved on to the ipad. Brushes and Artrage are both great apps and it will be interesting to see which approach proves most popular - simulating old media or just using digital marks.

Jeanie has produced a video tutorial on how she believes Hockney drew his ipad pics that were exhibited a few years ago.  See Youtube.

Jeanie uses both Brushes and Artrage on her ipad.  Text by Nick not Jeanie

Nude a week 9: Male nude in green chalk

A quick sketch in green chalk of a man reaching down and away

With very quick sketches the proportion sometimes falls by the wayside as I try to get the swing of the body.  In this case the swing of the pose was my primary concern and the proportions were secondary. As a result the legs look smaller than the torso.  When you draw with chalk there is no second chance.  Erasing isn't possible.

Nude a week 8: A very quick sketch

Back view of a girl.  Conte crayon

Drawn in California. Back view of a girl standing with her weight on her right hip and swinging the spine in a curve.  Here you can see the construction lines across the sine.  Drawn extremely fast in a very brief pose.

Nude a week 7: Contortions

Conte sketches done in California

I like the shapes and rhythms formed by the limbs in these two extreme poses.  These were painted in California using Conte crayon.