Lounging with a Strawberry
I missed a week of painting while traveling and it was wonderful to meet up with friends today at the San Diego Watercolor Society and sketch for a long morning. We did 5, 10, and 20-minute poses, this one was a twenty-minute pose. I like the energy that comes from working fast and letting intuition tale the lead.
Our model was expressive and gorgeous, with long slender limbs and lots of character. I enjoyed interpreting her facial expressions during each pose; it was a nice change from all the landscapes I have been doing.
This is 12 x 12-inch gouache sketch on black paper with watercolor pencil and pastel pencil.
Deliberate Sketching 
This is so good! How you captured her expression!
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Thank you!
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Love her foot across from the strawberry, with the colorful big toe. Interesting composition, and super interesting use of color with the blue line, the magenta and the yummy strawberry red!!! Good work on drawing a very difficult pose too!!
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Thank you Sheila, it was an interesting pose, I got parts of it wrong, foreshortening is still perplexing to me, but it was fun to just run with it and see what might happen.
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