Portrait Practice 24/5/18
This is the latest picture of the ever patient Paul Jennings from today’s portrait practice session.
acrylic
New Painting: Reclining Nude II
This is another nude, painted in acrylic on a deep edge canvas. It’s another attempt to investigate methods of representing the human (female) figure in a style which seeks to emphasize the planes of the figure in space, as well as the interlocking shapes between the planes. It’s based on a study from a recent …
New Painting: Seated Nude I
This is a painting developed from a previous preparatory piece, Seated Nude I Study. I was thinking of the faceted figures painted by Picasso & Braque in their early Analytical Cubism phase and trying to seeing what would happen if I increased the number of planes/facets portrayed compared with my attempts at less faceted paintings …