4. Quick Coloured Pencil Sketch - Portrait of Reclining Nude * Here the artist very worked quickly and exaggerated some of the colours to capture the energy of the flowing curves against their rich dark background.

3. Sleeping Nude - Coloured Pencil Portrait Drawing * In this composition it was the beautiful pose and cool calm atmosphere, emphasised by the various blues, that inspired the artist.

Gallery Featuring Mixed-Style Drawings and Paintings of Nudes and Partial Nudes in Pencil, Ink, Oils and Coloured Pencil by UK Portrait Artist

Featured Art: "The Kiss" by Auguste Rodin & Nude Portraits by Great Western Artists

1. Detailed Pencil Portrait - Partial Nude with Drape * In this portrait, the artist used very soft pencils and blending for a realistic effect.

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6. Five Minute Oil Sketch from Life - Nude Lying Prone Here, speed of work has resulted in a simplified portrait with visible brush strokes and chunky angular forms.

7. Seated Nude - Coloured Pencil * A powerful triangular composition in which the artist has moved away from realism and accentuated the feminine shapes.

With its energy, grace and versatilty, the female nude has always appealed to artists. This small selection of nude portraits in pencil, ink and coloured pencil shows how different poses, compositions, media and colour schemes can create varying moods and effects. Many thanks to lockstock.deviantart.com (all drawings marked *) for allowing the artist to work from her superb collection of stock photos.

8. Nude Lying Prone - Ink Portrait *

In this simple black and white drawing the artist has minimized lines to give an impression of purity and silence.

5. Nude on a Red Couch - In this abstracted verson of the nude portrait, the artist has aimed to balance the main areas of colour and tone around the centrally-placed contours of the woman.

Featured Art: "The Kiss" by Auguste Rodin

"The Kiss is one of three full-scale nude sculptures made during this famous artist's lifetime. Its blend of eroticism and idealism makes it one of the great images of sexual love."

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For this and Similar Objets d'Art: Bronze Sculptures and Statues including Paul Jenkins, and David Geenty.

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Great Nude Portraits

A selection of portraits featuring nudes and partial nudes by great western artists.

After the Bath - Portrait - William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905) This prolific French artist's work is currently re-gaining a degree of respect in the art world, having been long regarded as overly posed and slushily romantic. His technical skill, furthermore, is surely indisputable, as is his vision of idealised beauty.

Blue Nude - Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) Although anatomically inaccurate, this portrait of a seated nude appears completely balanced within its format. Its pose, which completely excludes the spectator, combines with its watery blue colour scheme to produce an atmosphere of quiet self-contained sorrow.

Standing Nude - Pencil Drawing - Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) This superbly sensitive drawing demonstrates the artist's thorough knowledge of anatomy and weight-distribution underlying his art.

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Sleeping Nude - Lucien Freud (1922 - ) Freud's nudes especially are frequently described as 'unsettling', probably because they seem to take realism to an extreme. Their rather brutally honest subject matter is perhaps in surprising contrast to the artist's delicately conceived palette. This portrait recently sold in New York for an all-time record price of $33 M.

Olympia - Portrait - Edouard Manet (1832 - 83) Replacing the customarily restrained classical nude figure with an unidealised prostitute wearing only her jewellery and slippers caused the artist to be mercilessly scorned when this portrait was first shown. Today, it is commonly thought one of the world's greatest paintings.

Man at His Bath - Portrait Painting - Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 94) Controversial and unusual in its own era due to its faithful treatment of a banal subject, this portrait was first exhibited in its own room to minimise offence to spectators.