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You have made a serie of unusual but attractive images of the nude. I actual like them all, I think that adding the rose as a prop is a good decission while adding some more contrast to the image. All the images have a very good composition. The images are attractive to look ad.Made me wonder whether the model liked your ideas and found it nice to perform like this. Congrats and thank you for sharing.

Kind regards,

Herman

Thank you Herman! The whole project took a whole day [from about 10 in the morning to 10 in the evening] as we first had to travel about 70km to the abandoned 19th century paper mill. If it was not +30C that day, model would freeze because evaporating water from the clay emulsion takes a lot of body heat with it. The base layer is made of clay found in a gravel quarry while color is added with cosmetic clay [strictly - no artificial colors as we did not want to irritate the skin]. The building provided shade and all the backgrounds in the world. Model has no hesitation working with me, so there were no issues regarding poses or coloring.

Janis,

Thank you for your eloquent answer.

Kind regards

Herman

Hi Janis:  The rest of the pictures of women in your portfolio show them  exquisitely and beautifully.  What were you trying to say with the mud?  Alan.

Alan, sometimes I'm just in a mood to play with textures, trying something new.