Watercolor portrait painting painted from life of an african american male model.

Watercolor portrait of african american male painted on yupo paper.

2 Watercolor paintings   each 6 inches x 9 inches       $100

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I decided to step outside my “pastel box” this weekend at our figure drawing session. I’d been getting pretty comfortable with my pastel portrait painting approach and I  wanted to force myself to work differently. I grabbed my watercolor painting bag and a bunch of yupo paper and just went with the flow. Luckily we had a great model (very handsome and built!). That is always inspiring….

I limited myself to only 3 colors: Ultramarine blue, alazarin crimson and yellow ochre. I find that I can mix almost any color I need with these 3 hues, and the result tends to be more “unified” than when I use a whole slew of colors…

Watercolor painting of a nude female

Watercolor painting 8.5 inches x 11 inches $100 + shipping

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In figure drawing class, we have about 20 minutes to capture the essence of the model. Drawing so quickly is difficult in pastel and charcoal, but is especially challenging in watercolor. Everything is fluid and the colors run into each other, rarely appearing the way you envisioned them. But sometimes that is a very good thing. I have a chance to step away from “overworking”, my favorite pastime, and create a looser, more dynamic image.

Watercolor painting of standing nude figure model

Watercolor painting 5 inches x 15 inches $100 + shipping

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Well who’d have thunk it? After checking my blog statistics, I found that there is quite a large amount of web users searching on the term “Jill Wagner Nude”. Unfortunately, (and luckily for you) I have no photos of myself in the buff. However, in an effort to keep my art audience happy, I will instead offer some of my watercolor paintings from recent figure drawing classes. Next week I will return to our weekly class and look forward to sketching in both pastel, charcoal and watercolor.