JenB, Recumbent

Much too early to put my gear away, so I followed up the marker portrait with a bit of figure drawing.  This is JenB’s second appearance as one of my models.

I wanted to get back to simplicity by using just one colour.  Today it was charcoal grey.  I also wanted to leave at least one lost edge, which I’ve done near the right knee.  There are some great flowing lines, body contours and value contrasts in there today.  This is pretty good.  The right hand has to be one of my best limb ends for a while.  I left out the face today but maybe I chose the wrong painting to do this.  When I’ve left our faces with nothing behind them, things have looked OK.  But here, there’s a pouffe behind the head and I wasn’t sure whether to leave a head-shaped hole or to just fade things out the way I’ve done here.  I need to think about all that a bit more.

Still, JenB Recumbernt is up for sale.