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Bubble-gum Bouguereau Photo-set: Bubblegum (Priss)

Added 2023-09-08 10:13:00 +0000 UTC

In this first, eponymous photoset of Justyna Neryng's new Bubble-gum Bouguereau photo-series, poet and life model Priss Nash serves us a set of bubble-gum blowing poses, referencing both Pascal Möhlmann's 2023 painting 16:32 and William-Adolphe Bouguereau's 1885 painting The Young Shepherdess.

Both paintings employ a trompe-l'œil setting - an illusory sky and landscape painted as a backdrop to the model while the model posed in the studio. The contradictory light and thin paint of the background indicate that Bouguereau's Shepherdess would have posed in the studio while she was painted over the top of the separately-rendered landscape, while the unity of painterly marks in Möhlmann's portrait suggests that both background and figure were worked up in the studio simultaneously using photographic reference.

In both paintings the cloud-scudded skies give way to a horizon line at the model's chest and while we have not taken our allusion to the works quite so far as to add the landscape itself we invite you to introduce a setting of your choice, to borrow from Justyna's New Zealand cloud scape, or to represent Priss with no background at all. If you do choose to combine your own background with Priss's photographs think about how your process will affect your outcome: do you draw or paint the background from life, then add the figure over the top, do you collage a photo of the background with a photo of the model on photoshop/on paper and work from that single image, or do you place all of your reference in front of you and mix the elements together on your canvas?

Recommended listening: Gwen Stefani's Love Angel Music Baby

About the model

Priss has been part of Draw's core team for 6 years - she is a poet and life model and you can follower her poetry on Instagram HERE
Take a look at Priss's Portrait, Life and Clothed photosets and her 'Summoning', 'Float', 'Hands' & 'Back to Front' photosets via the links.
Priss was 'The Stars' at the Drawing Circus HERE
Watch Priss' portrait replay HERE and life replay HERE

About the photos

This photoset was shot by Justyna Neryng - you can buy or commission photosets from her directly HERE
You can follow Justyna on Instagram HERE
For the full list of autumn release dates, have a look at our teaser photo-set HERE

Use the Draw Patreon Navigator to find any of our past photosets and take a look at our blogs on how to gather, manipulate and translate photo reference.

Guidelines for using the photographs

Please do:

Download these pictures to your own computers and devices, downloading the Zip files for all images, or saving individual photos.
Use the pictures to draw, paint, print and sculpt from, being as realistic or creative as you like
Share the artwork you’ve made with us and the world - in books, in exhibitions, on social media, or on your fridge
Tag us in work you make (@drawbrighton / #drawbrighton) – you don’t have to, but we love to see what you’ve made!
Edit the photo files as reference for your own drawings - you can change the contrasts, colours and backgrounds to provide more tailored reference for yourself.

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