Seated Nude Woman

"Oil Sketch of Seated Nude, Looking Left" (16"X20", Oil on Canvas, $250)

This was done in the same class that produced most of the other figure paintings on this blog. I like the loose approach to the brushwork and the way the gesture of her pose comes through in the painting. She was a good model, but like so many others, she posed for two sessions and was never seen again. I think most artist's models are students who move on to something more steady and lucrative after a year or two.

You can see that in this painting the lit shoulder is further from the viewer, which makes the process a little more difficult and isn't the standard way of doing things to produce depth in a painting. Luckily, this one-session sketch was left as it is, and I moved along to a second version that zooms back to include more of the figure and chair for the second session. The other one is pretty good, but this one os better.