Working from Life Class: Today's Nude [Channel 4, July 2009] Nos3

The model is Kirsten Varley who I believe is a 'commercial model'. She had a tendency to move the position of her head and hands during the programme which allowed me to freeze the picture at a suitable pose which appealed to me. As you see I again experimented, firstly with charcoal, smoothing with my finger or leaving a coarser texture on the paper, and secondly with colour. I had recently bought myself a set of soft pastels, which I used in the full pose. Also a set of conte sticks with which I explored the diversity of flesh colours and tones, which I searched for and believe I detected, in closer detail in the torso drawing.