The Dancers
The Dancers 16"x20" Acrylic Thank you Val for reminding me you don't have to be a slave to the reference. I could never make the figure in front of the closest girl read correctly, hence the saddle bags, but AI think taking it out really made no difference to the picture and really cleaned it up. Thanks again to Linda Willason for the fantastic shot of I believe her daughter's group of ballerinas. This was fun to paint and really ended up with little painting, but did spend quite of time on the color and back of the ballerina closest to the viewer trying to get the representation of musculature. This really was a fun piece and I have to admit I am partial to the dark background (it is easy too as backgrounds aren't my strongest suit). Have se