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

Nude a week 28: Three colour acrylic of a seated nude

I painted this a few days ago.  I painted it in three layers using acrylic on  watercolour paper.  I began using just yellow, then I worked with cyan, and finished with dilute magenta.

I like the effect of the yellow showing through and the colours blending in the shadows and the darkest shadows blending of the three colours.  This was a quick pose, drawn from life.

Below you can see the covers which I designed for three interesting ebooks written by my father in law, H E L Mellersh.  They are now available on Kindle, ipad etc.  You can learn more at www.njeanius.uk
 
                                 

Nude of the week 27: Animation of a nude man standing up

 

Man Working. 1

This is a dark brown drawing of a man.  It is one of a series of five drawn approximately from the same angle. He stoops to the ground, picks up a stone, lifts it, stands, and places it high up.  We have put them together to make a nice little animation. All very quick  2 minute  sketches or so.

Click on the arrow below to watch the video.It's much better on full screen so click on the little square thing at the bottom right of the video.

 If the video does not show above on your tablet or phone click here to view it on YouTube

PS: The ebooks of Nick's father;s World War One Books are now published after ages of struggle.  Jeanie did the covers.  See below.  There's much  more at njeanius.uk