This is a piece I have been working on, screwing up, cussing at, and giving up on for over a year. I finally had a breakthrough and finished it and the accompanying one while my wife was on vacation. You can check my scraps for the original color study and some in-process pictures. I started off thinking that I was going to do a piece reminiscent of Henry Moore’s figure drawings and ended up looking to Alphonse Mucha and Patrick Nagel for inspiration before I was finished. I think these are going to be a new direction for some of my up and coming nudes. Perhaps I’ll strike a balance between this and my Pseudo-Futurist nudes.

It is about 20"x30" on cold press Illustration board done with water color mostly and colored pencil. I tried to spray paint on this one but I hated the outcome and ended up shaving it with a blade from a mat cutter. I’m not joking! I loved the end result and shaved off some watercolor in a few areas too. It left an interesting texture.