Seated Nude - Second Painting

Seated Nude - second session
(secondary Painting)
Oil on Board

I'm fond of having a second painting on the easel as a secondary painting, this keeps me from overworking the main painting and also serves as a testing ground for colour and tone for the main painting.

Sometimes the secondary painting, as in this case, is as nice or better than the main painting. The last pose with this model is next week, hopefully I'll get them both finished in the final two hours.

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Seated Nude - Main Painting

Seated Nude - Primary painting
Oil on Board

This is the second last session on with this model, next week we race towards completion and I'm feeling the pressure. Both this painting and the secondary painting are small works, but they have consumed many hours so far!

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Seated nude - incomplete

Seated nude - Oil on board

I seem to be specializing in incomplete paintings at the moment... my day job has been keeping me from painting. I've been on deadlines and had an extra work load; but that's all over (for now).

Last week we erected a wooden 'cottage' in the back yard which will be my studio, so far it's a shell with all my art stuff crammed into it and it's going to take another week before I'm up and running there.

Hopefully I'll move some of these 'incompletes' to FIN.

Seated Nude - Charcoal on paper

Seated Nude
Charcoal on Paper

My workload on my day job is seriously messing with my art time... this is a quick sketch on paper. It's a new model, and she is lovely!