Contemporary Artist: Lucien Freud

"Leigh on a Green Sofa" (top right)
     This work is more like what we have done in studio looking at just nude models posing for extended periods of time.  It is a very quick interpretation of light and shadow over the figure and a snapshot of the musculature and skin positions of the stretched out moment in time.  I like the washed out green undertone of this image that gives the figure a sense of having been drowned instead of resting.

"Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" (left)
     This paiting is the most expensive painting ever sold while the creating artist was still alive back in the 1990's.  In our studio, we had to draw a figure as if he was extremely engorged with fat and interpret how gravity would react to his body.  The sags and folds of this woman's skin is heavily flowing downward over her sofa and her own body.

"Girl with Closed Eyes" (bottom right)
     This paiting looks like a schematic look at the highly saturated areas of the figural torso and face.  It takes into account both where the shadows and highlights are but also where there is more vibrant fleshy hues.