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Thursday, April 08, 2010

FLAMENCO SERIES 2 & 3, Mixed Media on Paper, 2010

My series of flamenco dancers continues. My goal is to experiment with movement, texture, mood, energy, vitality and emotion-all of which would be the highlights in this series of drawings and paintings.



FLAMENCO SERIES 2

The inspiration for this series has come from Brian's St Louis Drawing Blog. He had an interesting post on a Flamenco dancer, Beth Steinbrenner to not only model for them but also dance while modelling. Now that's a great opportunity! I asked Brian if I could produce a series of drawings and paintings from this video clip and he agreed.



FLAMENCO SERIES 3

This is a mixed media piece that I used acrylic, gouache, coloured pencils,wax crayons, charcoal dust, graphite dust, chalk pastel, oil base pencil and water on paper.

18 comments:

  1. These are very dramatic, I like how they capture my interest with your use of mixed media.

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  2. i just come to feast my eyes on your drawings.......always love to believe if i had given arts a chance i would have been a good still life drawing artist haha but thats been since 8th grade. i choose not to lie to myself anymore, i suck! haha
    I LOVE YOUR WORK....even though i dont know a thing about drawing or the lingo....................i appreciate art.
    such serenity n pride!

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  3. Thanks Formely steaith reader!

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  4. Great expressed energy! Great work!

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  5. Beautiful! I have a flamenco charcoal that I have been trying to resurrect. It has sat on the shelf for a few years. I may have to take it up again. Inspirational work. I particularly like how suggestive and gestural they remain.

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  6. I am awestruck Adebanji...beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!

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  7. I can see the movement in these so clearly. I remember her dancing and you captured it just right. Beautiful!

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