This is the next in my series of dancers, another Flamenco dancer and my favorite of this group. This is NuPastels on 12x16 black Canson Mi-Tientes paper. My goal was to capture the motion and energy of the body in frenetic action. Rather than paint this as I normally would, I built up the shapes by making small horizontal marks with the hard pastel sticks, building up the tones slowly one color at a time. My instructor loved this one and suggested that I do one life-sized using the same technique and i must say I find something very appealing in that idea.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
The Canary
This is the next in my series of dancers, another Flamenco dancer and my favorite of this group. This is NuPastels on 12x16 black Canson Mi-Tientes paper. My goal was to capture the motion and energy of the body in frenetic action. Rather than paint this as I normally would, I built up the shapes by making small horizontal marks with the hard pastel sticks, building up the tones slowly one color at a time. My instructor loved this one and suggested that I do one life-sized using the same technique and i must say I find something very appealing in that idea.
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