Beach Vendors

Two beach vendors that I saw many years ago in Mazatlan. I saw a chance to do two separate pictures that could stand alone or be hung together.

For Sale
These are framed with a black matt, black frame and non glare glass. Each picture is US$150 each or US$275 for the two.

Unfinished Dance

I really wanted to do another dancing picture! However this is not one of my most successful attempts!

Firstly I wanted to do this on three sheets of paper as wanted to get into the details.
The pose I chose was not easy as the female dancer was a lot smaller than the male, which I thought was charming and interesting.

This picture is as far as I could take this pastel. It represents many hours of work.
I even attempted the faces a second time which was worse than this! So this is an unfinished picture. I eventually had to give up from pure frustration. Maybe at a later time I will try again, but I felt that I had to move on and feel good about something else!

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Mexican Rooster

I spent a huge amount of time when we arrived in Mexico on our apartment as we were renting a new place.

My neighbor and friend who is also an artist from Toronto had just finished a Rooster when we arrived, which I really enjoyed. So I thought this was a good way to get back into the pastel world.

Somehow my imagined Rooster seemed to take on a character of its own. Where we are living is a very Mexican area and we have many roosters around but they don’t seem to stay still for very long!

Wondering why there are no posts lately?

Time has certainly got away on me. I am happily back in Mexico , but because we moved into a new place I have been very busy buying items for the new apartment and haven’t done any art in a while!

The apartment contains a lot of my art, especially items I am not trying to sell.
I am very hopeful that this busy part will change in the next week as eventually I will have the apartment in order and all I have to do now is sort out the cell phones!

I already have my next painting planned and I have just been commissioned to draw a pet. So I am anxious to put chalk to paper. Stay tuned….

Kelty

Kelty was a commission.
She is nine years old, really pretty and friendly dog.
As with most Collies she has a way of looking at you when she wants something.

Thank you so much for allowing me the pleasure of working on such a pretty dog.

Sold

The Honor Beat.

My fascination with the Jingle Dance continues. I have always enjoyed the fan that the dancers carry during this dance, especially on the honor beat, the dancer raises the fan to the sky in time with the drums. Even as I was drawing this I could hear the drum beats in my mind. So in this picture I have chosen to focus on the fan and show the details of the beading.

For sale: 42cm x 50cm backed with a matt ready for framing. US $175

Dancing Feet...hear the sound

The legend of the Jingle Dress and the Jingle Dance vary slightly from tribe to tribe. They all, however, have the same basis for the story: The dress was given to the People in a vision from Great Spirit for the purpose of healing.

The most noticeable part of the dress is not the dress itself but the hundreds of cone shaped Copenhagen snuff lids that adorn the dress in various shapes and patterns. The only way to describe the way they sound when they chime together is rain on a tin roof.

The dance is performed with hand on the hip to signify pain; the dancers raise the fan on the honor beat. I wanted to take a less traditional view of this dance.

For sale 42cm x 50cm backed with a matt ready for framing. US $175 SOLD