Mixed Media Artist

Posts tagged “ballet

Ballerina Fixes Her Bun

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5″x15″ mixed media painting on rag paper. There is a .25″ border. This will need to be framed by you.

Available HERE


White Rabbit

white-rabbitHere is a little sketch I did yesterday of a girl dressed as bunny.  Maybe Easter is on the brain or maybe it is last week’s ballet recital (Imogen was a bunny).  Anyway, I thought I’d share it ’cause I thought it was kind of pretty.

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ACEO The Ballerina

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Monday morning, I always like to wake up to someone including me  in a treasury on etsy.  It just makes the day start out right.  Especially when it is with a group artists that are so amazing.  In fact, most of them were already favorites of mine on etsy!   Anyway, the piece that was included is called ‘Red Guitar’ (available) and the treasury is  entitled ‘Little Women’.

The above ACEO is called The Ballerina.

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Just Too Young

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It is hard to be two.  Everyone knows that you can’t teach a two year old in a ‘do what I say environment’.  Don’t even try!  To a two year old ‘do what I say’ means ‘do anything BUT that!’ and, make sure you pout your lips so they are touching your nose, cross your arms tight across your chest, and on occasion, throw yourself on the floor in a heap.  Is it any wonder that ballet classes are offered to 3 and up?  The problem with this is that a two year old sees themselves as ready and the idea that someone might even suggest that they may not be is insulting, to say the least!

UH OH …  cue the lips and arms and ONE… TWO… THREE… dissolve in tears to the floor!

This is an original 12″x12″ mixed media painting on a 2″ deep wood panel.


Too Young For Ballet Class

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Poor Scarlett.  She is just  a little too young for ballet class. (She doesn’t think she is though!) Next year, Scarlett.  Next year.

This ACEO is sold …thanks Grandmother!


In The Wings

Yesterday was Imogen’s novice ballet recital. She did a great job. Some of the older girls were so beautiful dancing their solos. I got all weepy about it all and then right in the middle of the show, everything was stopped and a teacher came out carrying a sobbing little girl. Her parents were called and when she saw her Daddy approach the stage her little body shook and she sobbed even harder with relief. That was just too much for me. Tears were streaming down my face. It would have been very embarrassing if it hadn’t been so dark in the theatre.

This multi media piece is called “Waiting”. I did it a little while ago. This is what I wrote about it at the time:

How much time does a dancer wait in the wings? Certainly more time than actually dancing. I am sure it is true of a lot of things but I am so intrigued by the world of dancing right now  that I couldn’t help but paint this.