[mjmcchesney]

Agh, I'm actually posting here again. Feels a bit weird. Anyway, I've been going to live nude studios every monday night from 7-10 pm, usually with the same model for two sessions. I drew quick sketches/etc the first time I went, but quickly realized that 3 hours of the same pose is better for painting. Thus, I whipped out the gouache on my third visit. This is the first time I've really done any gouache, (especially on cardboard) and ripped off a piece of cardboard from a box in my garage before I ran out of the house. Sorry 'bout the scanjob (I only have a 8.5x11 flatbed).

Crits/comments/suggestions/flames/whoring?



Or if you want a super high-rez (1 meg image file): Huge Rez

[Impaler]

Use less colors/values, bring out the shapes. It looks like a humanoid blob of paint that resembles living androgeny.

And ditch the gouache. I'd use either inks (sepia and black india, watered down to give you a lot of different values) or transparent watercolors. Gouache is a bitch to work with unless you have all your steps planned out really well, which is something that's hard to do in a 3 hour class. There you have to paint live with no reference pictures or anything of the sort, and you have to work before your goauche dries, which tends to happen really fast.

You captured the pose really well, so you have no problem there.

*nod*

[mjmcchesney]

Well, I disagree with you about gouache. I think it's great for situations such as this - it requires keen observations and real understanding of the form to effectively capture it with the least number of brush strokes. Thus, it teaches self control.

This piece was more of an impressionistic style, and thus I didn't really care too much about hard edges of real defined forms - just the essence of the pose and giving it life. But, your critique is noted when I do a tighter piece.

I'll play around =]