1230 Ballerinas, miniature 4x4", egg tempera

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857 Water Fairies 2, oil on board, 6x6

I decided to try the beach fairies in a square format. I think it works well.

759 Friends and Sisters

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I met these three young ladies yesterday while painting in Beacon Hill Park. I asked if they would sit for me and they obliged. Two are sisters and all are friends. 

703 A Wonderful Story

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Pardon the glare. A work in progress. I liked the motifs that surrounded and covered the girls. A very limited palette but exciting.

646 First Performance

Here's the same painting with a different background. Actually this is the original background. I wanted something more illuminated but nothing worked as well as the dark curtains. 

415 Ballet Under painting 2, 36x36, figurative

I worked today on making some corrections in the under painting. After working on it for a while I felt I needed to set the painting aside as I was over working it and it was losing some of it's freshness. Today I worked on the proportions of the figures and suggesting the features without over defining. I really want to get the values right so the painting reads well.
I also like the feet. Those soft ballet shoes make the feet look flat. This is especially so for children's feet.
Colour to come soon.

414 Ballet Underpainting, 36x36

I'm working on a large figure painting. This is a value plan I did so far. I chose the square format to emphasize that the ballerinas are huddled together. Even this is very rough and I'll work on correcting some of the values before I go in with colour. the light source is from the right and I notice I need to make the floor lighter towards the light source.