New Piece "Nudity"

**Jeff Lafferty** · November 14th, 2008, 03:37 AM

New Piece, I call it Blood Red Blonde What do you think?

Title: Blood Red Blonde
Size: 11” x 8 1/2” inches
Medium: Acrylic and colored pencil on masonite
Year: 2008

**Bralt Hannicart** · November 14th, 2008, 05:06 AM

I like the vibrant colors and ofcourse the skillful techniques used here. Hower, I feel the image should have been cropped a bit more on the right. So the legs don't just appear to be ... cut off, it looks like you ran out of canvas accidently. Hope you understand what I mean. Perhaps you should make the fade of the body into the velvet sheets a bit longer, starting around the hips at least?

Apart from that...splendid. splentit? haha..ok, sorry.

**Kan Muftić** · November 14th, 2008, 05:13 AM

loving the quality of the little strokes that describe the shapes.
great job, sir.

**Borilius** · November 14th, 2008, 07:14 AM

You definitely not wasting your time, sir! One great piece after another, i can't catch breath... Love it!

**newman** · November 14th, 2008, 07:21 AM

nice work jeff!

**Gilead** · November 14th, 2008, 08:25 AM

Great detail, but somehow it looks two dimensional. I initially thought that you took a photo of the painting from the side while it was laying on a table or something. Actually when I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a car hood. But it's very well done none the less.

**rinaswan** · November 14th, 2008, 08:56 AM

Nice work and mind-blowing pose. Though I agree with Gilead. It looks a bit flat as if the painting is distorted somehow by the camera.

**DARYL** · November 14th, 2008, 09:38 AM

really like this and your previous one! love the confident brush strokes too.
only thing, I guess she's wearing panties but they are bit hard to read, having pretty much the same colors as her skin?

**Daniel Andrews** · November 14th, 2008, 09:55 AM

Acrylic mixed with color pencil always seem to have more appeal to me. Nice work man.
Aside from the medium, im more into the subject matter more than anything haha

**Hai** · November 14th, 2008, 01:51 PM

The hair is fantastic.

**Jeff Lafferty** · November 15th, 2008, 02:24 AM

Bralt - Thanks man, good points.
Chupacabra - Thanks.
Borilius - Thanks a lot man. I've really been into it lately, just not enough hours in the day, know what I mean.
Newman - Thanks Ben, your awesome.
Gilead - Interesting observation, I hadn't noticed it. Maybe its the edge of the bed making it look that way, thanks.
Rinaswan - Thanks
Daryl - No panties man, the lines a winkle, thanks though.
Danvancool - Thanks dude!
Hai - Thanks alot

Jeff

**mariusz** · December 23rd, 2008, 08:33 AM

Awsome work

**Katzenminze** · December 23rd, 2008, 09:09 AM

hi i think you really managed to get the pencil and acrylics to work together!
nice overall outcome! you should really give bralt hannicart's idea a try it seems kinda awkward that her legs just seem to disappear! very nice work still!

**Peetaer** · December 23rd, 2008, 02:25 PM

wow dude. totally blown away by the amount of detail you managed to show in this piece. very cool stuff.

**Jeff Lafferty** · December 30th, 2008, 06:45 AM

Thanks Peetaer, Thanks Katzenminze I appreciate the comment, but I like the legs the way they are. Thanks Mariusz
Jeff

**Conejo Blanco** · December 30th, 2008, 11:29 AM

Very nice indeed... I like how her face is pressed kind of into the bed... this makes it a much more private moment for her, rather than the cookie-cutter porno exhibitionism "I'm doing this for you, aren't you turned on" kind of thing that is everywhere.

**Jeff Lafferty** · January 2nd, 2009, 02:28 AM

Cool! Thanks Blanco.
Jeff

**juczpen** · January 2nd, 2009, 03:30 AM

Great sense of realism, I like the palette of colors being used and how the girl is in an erotic scene while having some inner peace in it

**markwagner** · January 2nd, 2009, 08:42 PM

Nice... but who is she? What is she thinking about? Where did she come from, where is she going to? Why should I care. Who are you? Why are you here? (on the planet?) Yes.... I have said this before, probably will again.

Best of everything,
~M

**Ericus** · January 3rd, 2009, 01:37 AM

Jeff, I think it turned out beautiful! Very nice indeed, I really love the quality of light in this piece and I agree with Chup, the little strokes are fantastic. Thanks for posting, nicely done!

**magyareagle** · January 4th, 2009, 03:55 AM

Stunning effect of motion and color.

**Baron Impossible** · January 4th, 2009, 01:43 PM

I like it, although I'm in two minds about the legs fading away to nothing at the border. Love the hands, they're so expressive - no sausage fingers there!

**Mr.Blonde** · January 4th, 2009, 02:26 PM

hey man! I like some of the technique you've got going here, the hatching works well, and the way you handled the hair is nice.

I don't think the white/close to white blown out value on the left part of the cloth works. Cloth tends to be flatter in value and as it is now the white to the left and surrounding the head competes for attention.. If it were flatter and closer in value and color to the rest of the cloth the figure would stand out more and the work you put into the hair and head would be more easily appreciated by the viewer.

I agree with some of the earlier comments about the cropping of the legs... anyway, i enjoy your stuff and look forward to further posts