Anastasia Kurakina Nude Drawings and Watercolors

"Fall to Grace" is an original ink and watercolor painting on paper mounted to wood by artist Robert Kraiza measuring 19in height x 9in width. Artist Statement // In my work I invoke a whimsical world inspired by Victorian and Edwardian eras. To me they represent a romantic time period that has roots that extend directly into the modern world, both good and bad. The customs and aesthetics of the period are both fascinating and breathtaking but a vast portion of the population was victim to subjugation. It has since been eradicated on paper but still permeates to this day. I am exploring an imagined supernatural world hidden just out of sight where these woman could escape. This is an evolution from my earlier work set in the same time period with a continuous thread of humans and their animal companions. Through witchcraft these women find strength in their abilities and each other to leave the oppressive world they inhabit behind and escape to the woods to their Covendom, the boundary that defines the territory of their coven. They shed their customs, their corsets, and their concerns at the edge of the forest and gather among the trees to explore their magical potential with their familiars at the side. This body of work is exploring multiple media with a consistent theme and setting; combining watercolor painting, pen and ink illustrations, and graphite drawings. All pieces are created in monochrome on hot press watercolor paper mounted on wood with a gold painted border reminiscent of daguerreotype frames. Watercolor allows me to achieve results ranging from soft ethereal layered washes similar to oil glazes to precise minute details I include in all of my works. Bio // ROBERT KRAIZA (pronounced: cry-zuh) is an illustrator and fine artist who lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied Media Arts and Animation at the Art Institute of Philadelphia. Interested in many media, he often paints in monochrome watercolor on a small scale, inspired by the Victorian era and whimsical dreams in both his art and personal aesthetic. Depicting fantasy worlds from the hidden life of nineteenth century witches to miniature children...

Gabryela Wasowicz is a Polish painter born in 1947. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw and then at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam. Once she graduated in 197...

SUMMER - female nude - by Paula Craioveanu - original sepia drawing. Sepia ink drawing on watercolor paper inspired by Matisse's nudes. Original, unique, not...

Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of nude man bent over. 24x18 inches. Signed. Some p...

Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...

Rick Sindt's knowledge of the male physique is evident in this drawing of a nude male torso. The subject is tilted back with his head turned away, as if to shield himself from the v...

Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of nude ...

Original gouache and ink nude figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Torso and buttocks of man with arm raised in wa...

"Afternoon Light" is an original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ron...

Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Chaotic, rock n roll sketch of nude woman rec...

Hold On1, Original Contemporary Minimalist Nude Figure Study Painting, 2022 20" x 16" (HxW) Watercolor on Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper A modern figure study of the divine feminine, this composition by artist Elizabeth Becker...

"Shower" is an original oil pastel, ink and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald S...