Hello my dear Steemians,

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As always after weekend of charging our Upvote Power we are back. It was really intense last week, with a lot of work from my side and as you can see I even took part in an Art contest that actually I stopped doing sometimes ago. But I could not resist for a call to draw an Alien plant, and you can see what came out of my attempt.

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The Highlight of last week, I won  *JACKPOT*, OK not real jackpot but it felt like as if and therefore, I would like to thank and express my great APPRECIATION to:

**@Curie Curation Trail**
**@OCD-resteem**
**@Slothicorn**
for noticing my Cryptoart "Bitcoin", you  are like a Santa who just dropping a little presents that we, Steemians waiting for. *Thank you for you work and that you are there.* 

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Now back to my Topic of the week, if you following me then you know that I am fascinated by beauty, but one of my favorite beauty subject is *BEAUTY OF WOMEN*. Therefore, I decided to reflect it this week.

My first painting of the week I wanted to open with the work called "The beauty of body" and there is a little story behind it. As many of you I was once in museum, I love to see and study paintings but another thing I love to do is to observe people and try to read their thoughts.

Once I saw a little group of people in front of a painting with a nude beauty, there were a young mother with baby on buggy and probably her mum and a young man. 

It seems like everyone has his own view: the *young man* probably thought: I wish she would be my girlfriend.
The *elderly lady* probably thought: I was also so young and had such body. The *young mum* probably thought: I need to get back my body shape. And the *baby* on buggy was pointing to upper part of the beauty then looking at his mum, only then I realized that he probably thought about breastfeeding when he saw exposed breast. 

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So here is the result of my work:

![a1DSC01567.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRuH5F19yZitXzhH91QivV28hp37efHHEUSKDmsepNDSu/a1DSC01567.JPG)

*<center>Acrylic painting "WOMEN: The beauty of body" by @Stef1</center>*


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My process steps and as always everything starts with chaotic colors, that really concerns me initially:

![DSC01537.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUqsZXxYTvVw2o2M285Ham5fGtPxn3QEJScZ3CmrQvzjc/DSC01537.JPG)

![Trenner groß.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmagqZowMZBpFWtZz9zYbsNx9zWTeZr3wAGaZQm22yrfRS/Trenner%20gro%C3%9F.png)

At this stage main tools are my palette knives, the large for background and fine one for small detailed texture. Of course water, as acrylic colors drying up quickly.

![DSC01541.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWF8mU7brB3pKVj7L5Q3kn1YhtVBQx3zvJq9Chrwkp1Gd/DSC01541.JPG)

![Trenner groß.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmagqZowMZBpFWtZz9zYbsNx9zWTeZr3wAGaZQm22yrfRS/Trenner%20gro%C3%9F.png)

Now the fine details with brushes:

![DSC01567.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYQvjRry7D2mucefeCnDUL38E1J4MXfjmMHyy1eZjDLJJ/DSC01567.JPG)

![Trenner groß.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmagqZowMZBpFWtZz9zYbsNx9zWTeZr3wAGaZQm22yrfRS/Trenner%20gro%C3%9F.png)

[![test1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNX8wDiH24vJKCrcztUYsTyeCjWdBgL2v49Axi3h6pBsm/test1.jpg) ](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

[ ![DSC01062.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdFZorkt5t85EjV7tgNbfUxbS3nxECwS5o2DDZ7mYNHHr/DSC01062.jpg)](https://steemit.com/@brianhphotos)

*<center>I hope you enjoyed my post and thank you for viewing :)</center>*