Ballet paintings continued

Here are 3 paintings from my series I painted of Krista, a beautiful ballet dancer. She graciously danced for me on Saturday afternoon at the East Carolina University ballet studio while I snapped away taking many pictures.

The paintings are all for sale - waiting for an exhibit in an unknown gallery at this time. Any offers will be considered (for a gallery that is!) I have painted 10 paintings in the series and the range of size is varied. These 3 are rather small, 12x24, 16x20 and 12x18 from top to bottom. Contact me if you are interested.

Ballet paintings for sale!

The last two paintings are SOLD

Progress on my latest portrait of a young girl. This is 24x30, oil and unfinished of course. This portrait will have a portrait of her brother hung on the same wall in the client's home. Background should be extremely similar and I have started the brother as well.

Krista - 16x20 - Krista is the dancer I've painted 10 paintings of for a show. Now, all I need is a gallery to show them in...........

Big Hello To Renee!

Here's a big HI AND HELLO! to my friend and fellow portrait slaver, Renee Price! You may be my only visitor besides my family! Remember to click on the smilebox production of Mother's Day pics to see Cami and some beautiful flowers from our yard. Glad to see you!

Mother's Day at our house *click on link*

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update of my painting of Ali as of last week

Here are pics at Mom's 76th Birthday and pics at our house this spring

Hi Mom, follow this link!

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Allison small portrait

I'm working on this very small portrait of a past client, Allison. Here is what I've done after a wipeout from raw umber and the two days of color work. My palette is mostly earth colors.

Here are some paintings I'm working on - some look fuzzy - I think it's from the wind blowing while I was taking the shots outside - for best lighting, of course. All are in progress. The model is a beautiful dancer daughter of a fellow teacher. I also taught her when she was a little girl of 6 and 7.

White Tutu - oil on canvas - 12x16

Mirror Dancer - 11x14

oil on gessoboard

First day of the blog

So here is the first post in my new blog. Thanks to SamIvie for giving me this idea. I plan on posting my paintings in progress at least once a week. This will keep me on my toes I think! Also, my friends and family can drop in once in awhile to see what I've been up to. Unlike my site, www.denisedhall.com, which has only finished portraits and portrait business, this blog shall be for paintings of all kinds in progress.

I'm working on a dancer series, 3 portraits, some other various and sundry drawings and plan on putting them all here.

If you're a painter, artist or fellow sufferer in the arts - please drop me a line. See my link page for some great artists sites to visit for inspiration.