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Encourage & Explore

The goddess within...Wednesday, May 20

5/19/2015

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Must be because I just got home from a Brockville Women's Business luncheon...about 60 sharp gals who run their own businesses. When I got home I started thinking about a focus for tomorrow. Sometimes I go on Pinterest to see what twigs me, and there I found Renoir's bathing women:
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Now, these were gals who didn't mind a little flesh roll here and there! And obviously didn't have to worry about the UV index!

So, maybe the idea of painting nude women bathing is a little passé (and given the mosquito population around here, I totally get it), but celebrating the goddess within never goes out of fashion - and the bathing goddess - always good!

I have studied, painted and drawn the nude (male and female) since I was a teenager - a right of passage as a serious artist.  Then, a few years ago, I purchased a wonderful book called Paint Happy, by Cristina Acosta. Her playful, fearless approach to creating a painting has informed my process since then. So below, two of my nudes (watercolour and ink) done from life, and my goddess painting, after Cristina.
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And for those students for whom the bathing female nude goddess is not a happening thing, how about the bathing nude animal? Like this charming otter (or your dog? a hippo? a cat? well, maybe not a cat....
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Otter diptych, Cristina Acosta
Hope you can make it!
Cheers, Mary
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