1st Place: "Evening Falls" (Nude Art)

We won! We won! 1st Place at the Professional Photographer's Society of Central Florida in Orlando under the Art-Tech Division! Yipeee! Next, this work of art will go to state competition later in the year. My inspiration for this piece came from, William Bouguereau (1825-1905), a victorian master artist. William painted a piece entitiled "Evening Mood" and when I saw it, I fell in love with it and was inspired to create, "Evening Falls".

It was quite an undertaking. First, I had to find a model who was inspired by art, uninhibited, confident and educated in modeling. As you see, I found the perfect woman. My beautiful model studied the original by Bouguereau so she knew how to fix her hair and makeup as well as have a strong grasp on the pose.

Direction and quality of light was very important to give the feel I knew that I wanted to ultimately create. Next, I took 3 different images that I had from a previous session on the beach----extracted the client from those images----I only wanted the background---and went to work melding them all together, adding color, texture and many retouching tricks! It took several months, lots of eye strain, a hunched back from sitting at the computer, numerous flare-ups of carpel-tunnel and occassional calls to my artist support group (thanks, Ken and Kim)----and, finally, "Evening Falls" was born.

Evening Falls contains frontal nudity, therefore, I have posted as a later date (I don't know how to make a private page) so that it is a private viewing. Please click here if you wish to see beautiful, "Evening Falls".