Nude of the week 37: Two ipad nudes and a video of a painting being drawn

Here are a couple of life drawings I did on the ipad a week or so ago.  Forty five minutes and twenty minutes respectively. One of the joys of ipad painting is that, when you have drawn the picture, you can see it recreated stroke by stroke as a sort of movie.  We have just bought a new telly and this means we can project the picture onto a large screen and see the action there.

We now find that we can then film the result and slow it down so that the way a picture is constructed can be watched and I can talk about it as it happens.  The first picture we did this with was a sketch of a young girl on her second birthday and the video of this is below,  We are in the process of making a similar video about one of the nudes above and will show that to you in the next post.  Meanwhile here is the first film we made using this process.  It really shows how an ipad picture is made. The technique is still a bit wobbly and there is a loss of clarity because it is a photo of a photo.  If anyone knows how to do this better we would love to know but despite the problems the result is really interesting.

This is the pic. The link to the video is below.


https://youtu.be/ye9RBcwVWLk

Other things we hope you will like
You could look at Nick's blog a poem a week at http://njeanius.blogspot.co.uk/ currently a slightly naughty poem but about to change soon.  Or my daughter's sculpting, she's just done a couple of small bronze figures https://mellersh.wordpress.com/ or the film mad by our nephew which is a lot of fun about revenge on the bankers (wishful thinking probably!) http://www.5greedybankers.com/

Nude a week 36: Nude reclines arms akimbo

A study in gouache I did the other day.  I enjoyed drawing the curving black lines in Sumi ink using a small pheasant feather as a brush.

PS:  Illustrated Fluteplaying, the book I co-authored with Robin Soldan will soon be out as an ebook.  See njeanius.uk for more about this,  Oh yes and see the naughty poem I got for a valentine at
http://njeanius.blogspot.co.uk/

PPS  My daughter Lucy has recently created a couple of amazing bronze women nudes. A picture is below.  You can see more and learn about the process of creating a bronze from her blog.

https://mellersh.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/casting-in-bronze/

Bronze by daughter Lucy Mellersh.  Learn more at her blog 

 

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