Water Nymph

A new watercolor in my female series. Above you can see the painting process. I usually paint in 3-4 layers, with the linework being last. Watercolor on illustration board. Prints of this piece are available in my Etsy store.

Artwork ©Samantha Nagel (not for use or altering in any way)

Art Nouveau Women

These are two new watercolor paintings with an Art Nouveau theme. I really love Alfonse Mucha's work and always wanted to paint some flower haired ladies of my own. These two are available as prints at my Etsy store.

©Sam Nagel (artwork not for use or altering in any way)

Koi Lady, second session

Still more progress shots. Just to let everyone know, this painting is on a 24x36" canvas, one of my biggest figurative works so far. I have already gone passed what is photographed here and finished defining all of her hair. I'm really diggin the art nouveau hair and plan to incorporate some Mucha inspired style. I am still thinking about a title.... perhaps "Don't Be Coy" ?

Still in progress... now on canvas

I tweaked the drawing, adding some more interesting elements to the piece, then brought the drawing onto canvas. So far I've painted an hour session and will allow the oils to dry up a little before I continue onto the next step....

Something New: Pin-up

I've been working out some new sketches for a painting. I'm sketching in photoshop with my tablet, but I'm going to end up doing the painting in oils. The bottom image is basically putting my idea onto paper, then I got real reference to work from and produced the second image at the top... what a difference. The next thing I want to do is add some kind of motif to the painting... just gotta figure out what that will be... something in her hair, it's all about her hair (and less about the boobs) ;)

Nude Figure Drawing

I found a pretty awesome figure drawing tool online. It gave me the feeling of being back in school in my figure drawing class again. You can set up your time intervals and the website cycles through a variety of figurative pictures to draw. After a couple quick drawings I ended up pausing this particular picture and spent about 45-60 minutes creating a more finished piece. If you want to do an at home drawing session I recommend trying it, here: Figure Drawing Practice .