Carnival Dancers with Artisitic License
These carnival dancers are loosely based on dancers I saw a long time ago at the Winnipeg Canada Folk Festival’s Caribbean pavilion. There they had long dresses with more yellow and were inside a school gym. Artistic license.
Ladies Dance – Women in Art
Ladies Dance is a totally made up painting. These ladies do not exist in a photo. They are conjured up as a result of my painting so many women. I can’t tell you how many complete paintings lie under this one. But none of them suited me. (of course what usually happens is that i [...]
An Inspirational Trip
Bourbon Street Tango is a work that resulted from a trip to New Orleans in February. I was walking in the French Quarter and happened upon a group of musicians and a dancing couple. I joined the crowd to watch them perform for the next hour and bought their CD. I play their CD [...]
“Ocean Music” 24×30
This is “Ocean Music” – 24×30 inch canvas that is a continuation of my dance series. But it is less about a recognizable dance form than just my feeling of a couple who are on the shore and no she is not beating him with a stick!