Nude of the week 35. Four very quick gesture drawings on the ipad

Striding

Stooping

Throwing

Skating

Creeping

If you like these you might enjoy my video on how I believe Hockney did one of his Ipad paintings. It's here on youtube

PS.  The flute book I wrote with Robin Soldan will soon be available as an ebook.  To follow it's progress go to njeanius.uk

PPS>New poem up now on the sister blog njeanius.blogspot.uk

Nude of the week 34: Two nudes together for the new year

The intense shadow enhances the light tone of the flesh and helps to show the three dimensional asppects.

I'm thinking of selling some of my artwork on Etsy.  Can anyone give me any advice or opinions on this.

Don't forget to look at the sister blog"Poem a Week" which has a fun poem about a kid becoming a famous footballer at the moment see http://njeanius.blogspot.co.uk/
Two for the price of one this week!

Nude of the week 33: Christmas love

There's the nude.  Now watch the movie.

Happy Christmas to you all.  Hope you enjoy the movie.

Don't forget to look at the sister blog Poem a Week by my husband Nick for a nice comic poem that will appeal to the childish among you see http://njeanius.blogspot.co.uk/

And don't forget my husbands ebooks at njeanius.uk an excellent Christmas present for anyone interested in the story of the first World War.  

Love from Jeanie

Nude of the week 32: A contė and a pastel of the same model

Drawing in black contė crayon on rough paper giving texture to the darker areas.  The crayon is used on its side for tone and on it's sharp corner for linear detail like the hair.  I like the way the tousled darkl brown hair hangs in disarray about the face.  This pose beautifully fits in the proportions of the paper.

Although this is papstel there is very little colour letting the grey of the paper work for the shadows in the flesh and the drapery.  Warm colour is added very lightly to the model and the main colour is in the hair. The model lies looking up with her hair falling back

Nude of the week 31: Different angles, different media, same model and pose

Water colour from the front, with water soluble  crayon drawn into the still- wet  paint. I was experimenting with the colours of light on dark olive toned.skin.

Pencil from around her feet. I was  thinking in terms of sharp angles here, even on the wavy hair.  

Chalk on grey paper from the front. I was intrigued by the convoluted drapery beneath her.

Pencil from the back (the model has a tiger tattoo on her rear end.)I like the economic lines which say such a lot. You can follow my change of mind as I redraw the arm and the buttocks.

Drawn recently here are four pictures of the same model all in the same kind of pose.

PS. Don't forget to look at my husband, Nick.s poem a week blog njeanius.blogspot.co.uk.  Currently it features poems about the first world war to coincide with the publication as ebooks of Nick's father's books about the first world war.

My brother Robert (Bob) Huxtable has just put up a video about how he detoxed Paddy from heroin.  Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGG_PjbkFU4
 

Nude of the week 30: I draw Jill. She draws me.

 I asked Jill to do some sketching while I drew her.  She did a picture of me.  See below.  My drawing was brown and black chalk on grey paper.  Jill's drawing was in pencil.  I have had to digitally erhance her drawing so that it can be seen.  Hence the funny yellow tones.

PS.  Nick has finally got he father's ebooks published. See http://www.njeanius.uk/war-books.html

Nude of the week 29: Seated nude painted yesterday

Painted yesterday using conté on toned paper, the paper showing through to produce the flesh tones. The paper was sand coloured ingres paper and was not so grey as the paper in the reproduction.  I spent longer on this than I do on most of the sketches shown in this blog.

Last weekend was spent with my family and I drew two of my great nieces.  Lily and Georgia.  They are the grandchildren of my youngest sister and very beautiful little girls they are too.  Both were drawn with blue chalk as they moved around and lived their lives..

Georgia 18 months eating her breakfast

Lily, 4 today,October 30, 2015.  Happy birthday

Apologies over videos not showing in past posts. We have just discovered that the animations we put in various posts don't work on a lot of devices (including my ipad!).  My husband Nick is working to fix this problem and updating the various posts.  He is also working on his dad's World WarOne books which we are publishing as e-books see www.njeanius.uk

The video of the man standing in the last post but one can be seen on YouTube if you click here