I have always been intrigued by the body as once a dancer, now a mover and as an artist. I started as a young girl making my own dances. My first dance teachers were about improvisation than molding into a more technical dancer. Modern dance offered a freedom to...
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I use to hate summers. As a dancer in the city, summers were always a struggle with income dropping due to people leaving the city. Since I started painting, I love summers as an opportunity to do plein air and be outside. ...
Kuerner Farm is the farm where Andrew Wyeth did many of his paintings. This is my second time doing a plein air painting in oil. This is the first drafts of two painting that I started. [gallery columns="2" size="medium"...
From a wonderful model who is a dancer, my drawing easily captured her sense of movement. The second drawing is combining my favorite poses together on one page. I expanded the ideas of the drawings to larger work: one watercolor and the...
This first drawing is from two minute poses layered on one piece of paper. Using this drawing as a reference, I expanded the ideas with color to larger work using oil.
https://youtu.be/0kpr8snxvI4 I have been an artist all of my life, first as a dancer, choreographer and now a painter. Choreographing has influence how I think about painting. Many of the same principles of structuring a dance can be applied to the page/canvas.
From this drawing, I went into my art studio to play with expanding my work into different sizes and mediums. I also play with color which is another struggle. I first start in watercolor and watercolor crayon. Sometimes I add gouache especially white to calm the...
Abstracting the body with a set behind in a drawing involves simplifying the shapes, lines, and forms of the body and the set. Geometric shapes and curves are rendered in a minimalistic, and abstract way by emphasizing certain lines and shapes. When expanding a...
From my drawings with a live model, I go back to my art studio. I first play with more drawings on larger paper, then to watercolor with colored crayons and eventually to even larger work in oil. Each medium offers its own challenges. My main challenge is how...