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                                                                  Centerline                                                                      11"14"                                                                     Acrylic Centerline is the next of my performers series.  It is actually hard to believe this is #13 and I still have a few more I want to do.  I guess they say the right amount for a series is 20-25 pictures so I am on a good track to have a nice width ...

Contemplation 14"x17" Acrylic Here is another in the performer series.  Not sure where she found a porthole window like this, but thought it was pretty neat.  Well this one was done with a vision and a big prayer.  I had to believe in the fact that I would like it after I put phthalo blue washes over my grisaille.  I liked it really well just with the grisaille and figured if I had to I could go back over the blue washes with the grays again.  But now I do like how she kind of glows, and I especially like here against the darkest dark of the  lower  background. Then I was pretty tentative with my first saturation of the phthalo blue, and figured, in for a penny, in for a pound.   I went over it several more times with heavier washes to achieve the finished painting.     Hope you like it.  Thanks for stopping by. Grisaille before washes were applied

                                                                    Rumba                                                                     9"x12"                                                                    Acrylic Well been a busy week.  We had a few cooler days and I took advantage of them to get the garden final trim, pine straw spread, weeds sprayed/pulled and generally ready to be a closed garden for the season.  Yes, we are supposed to get some effects from...

                                                                       Triangular                                                                          12"12"                                                                          Pastel Well today was just a fun day and trying my street performers out in pastel on black Artagain paper.  I was getting itchy as I haven't painted with chalk now in quite a while.  Actually the ins...

                                                                     The Leap                                                                        9"x12"                                                                       Acrylic Well as they say all good things probably come to an end.  My roll, because that is what it has been, has come to an abrupt stop.  I hit the piano picture and came to a screeching halt.  It just doesn't have any life ...

                                                                 Break Dancer                                                                     14"x11"                                                                    Acrylic Well we don't watch much on our tv but PBS, sports and weather - can you tell there is a guy in the house?   But I have to admit that I am a fan and either insist on watching or tape So You Think You Can Dance.  Comes from wishing as a kid I could danc...

                                                                  Splash Ballerina                                                                          9"x12"                         ...

                                                                      The Dancers                                                                          16"x20"                      ...

Still working away on the dancers and wanted to stop as I want to be really fresh on the tutu of the dancer closest to the viewer.  I don't want to over work it.  I am really doing a lot of redrawing with the brush on this and am feeling more confident on doing that.  I am also going to do another several coats of thalo green/ultramarine blue over the black to deepen the color and pull all the darks together, I am finding that the black I over painted on the thalo in the center tends to be lighter than the black over the  white - go figure.  I have spent a lot of time on the skin tones of the dancer closest to us.  In the picture it reads very dark black, and even the hair versus the neck shadow just reads of black, of course we know that in real life we could see color variances.  So, I think there are going to have to be some additional blue/dark gray glazes there to enrich her tones.  Tricky, as I need to still be sure the light reads there ...

Linda Willison from PMP has ballerinas in her family, and has shared several of their pictures both at practice and I think maybe recitals.  This piece caught my eye immediately as I like the mystery of the dark, and the figures that pull you deeper into the background of the picture.  I also wanted to try the challenge of conveying the translucence of the tutus with the light coming through them.  Many figures or partial figures you can see where the light hits and where the figures are in the darkness.  Also it is really interesting how few strokes you need to convey arms, faces, etc. in the background.  I also am lightening the shadow areas so you have dark, but not all black - guess instead of shades of white, it's shades of black for this picture. The thalo green areas I tried using airbrush medium to get the really thin acrylic paint that almost is like a glaze but leaves a different texture on the paper.  I really like how this translucent color a...