"Girl Reading in the Nude" A charcoal pencil and sepia ink painting

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Charcoal pencil and sepia ink on watercolour paper

Date

9 Dec 2006

Creation time

About an hour or so

Tags

Charcoal drawings

Figure drawing

Ink and wash painting

Nudes

Paintings

Reclining pose

The female form

Comments by the artist

I painted this picture of a girl reading a book in the nude at least two years ago and I completely forgot about it. I was going through my watercolour paper and I rediscovered it! So here it is after all this time. It probably needs more work building up the tones on her body so her face doesn't look so dark. I find faces can be hard to get right so they end up a bit labored and dark. I think it's a nice relaxed pose though.