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Archive for September, 2010

Nude of the Week – Fallen

Fallen 24x36 Oils on Canvas

Fallen

Oils on Canvas
24 x 36 in

$1500

What a whirlwind this last week has been! my conceptual render was accepted by Hardware Gallery for their juried exhibition Flight which opens tomorrow! you can find all the details on their webpage or mine.
this put me in the extremely interesting position of having to paint one of my most ambitious works to date – in less than a week! luckily some hardcore painkillers, lots of tea, quick dry medium and many hours in the studio I proved to myself, yet again, that I do my best work under pressure. I couldn’t have gotten it done without my brilliant husband taking care of Erica – and without her making it so easy! she was a pleasure to take a break with and feed.
everything slotted in perfectly, feeds, drying time, rest time, painting, everything came together to produce this piece. I don’t really remember painting it – I was in the zone the whole time but I am so happy, it’s just how I wanted it to turn out.
Check out the exhibition if you are in Sydney!


friday nude quotes

“I have absolutely no hang-ups about modeling nude. I think if the pictures are really tasteful and classy I think it’s a beautiful thing.”

Lisa Boyle


Nude of the Week – Fallen Daz Render

Fallen
Fallen

Daz|Studio render

Sorry I havn’t been writing lately, so much is happening! It’s all going so fast I can’t keep up in my head let alone blog! hell, I can barely tweet :D I’m currently painting this one.

Can’t talk now, Painting…

Daz|Studio products used
Figure: Victoria 4 *free*
Morphs: Morphs++ NGM for V4
Wings: V4 Creature Wings
Rendered in Reality for Daz Studio (more about this later)


friday nude quotes

“One morning I greeted the cast naked in the front drive and insisted that today was to be a nude day. No, we didn’t have any nudity problems.”

Lars von Trier


friday nude quotes

“Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.”

John Hurt


Nude of the Week – Bestial Daz Render

bestial
Bestial

Daz|Studio render

This is one I’ve been wanting to paint for ages but other pieces just keep coming first! the problem with working so much on my preliminary renders is that I keep getting ideas, making new renders and getting excited about them.. so I’m going to showcase a few renders that got lost by the wayside. at the moment I am getting used to the new reality render engine for daz so I don’t have any new material and the painting I’m working on is in a difficult place, so I don’t want to post it right now!

when the weather is really bad (as it has been here) my pain is much worse. I compensate for painting time by rendering and getting new ideas for painting so that when I am well enough I can head into the studio and go for it! I seem to be very obsessed with crouching figures at the moment..

Daz|Studio products used
Figure: Victoria 4 *free*
Character: Eve
Hair: Eve
Lighting: Studiolight Pro
Morphs: Morphs++ NGM for V4


friday nude quotes

“I love nudity. I’m always nude. When I was a little girl my mother would always have to dress me because I was quite good at taking my clothes off.”

Gabrielle Richens


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