New Artwork!

I've been trying to get back into art!  These are a couple of studies I've recently completed ( need to practice more!) Hope you like them :) 

Lone Tree  - Medium: Graphite Pencils on heavy-weight french paper (medium texture)

Phantom Mask - Medium: Graphite Pencil on heavy-weight french paper (medium texture)

Working on the next one...

 

Happiness is a Choice

Do you agree?

From http://www.raeart.ca
"Happiness is a choice" print- made for the Shaytards

Btw:  I've decided to put up new blog posts AT LEAST twice a week or every weekend (Sat/Sun)... I think this will be much easier for me, and it will create a structure so you'll know how often a new post is on the site (rather than blogging every day, then being absent for weeks at a time :) )

A few more art pieces uploaded

I also added these to the slideshow in the side-bar--->

Fotografia :)

In photography: my old pointe shoes...

Artwork slideshow - updated

------------------------------------------------------------------------------>>

Busy during the holidays... and new books!

I haven't been very good at keeping the blog up to date recently... afterall, it is the christmas holiday!!  I'm overseas at the moment, and I've been planning to upload a few videos I took.... one of them will be included in my next post:  Christmas Lights show at the "Pyramids" in Wafi City, Dubai!  I've tried to insert the video into the post but it takes sooo long to load, so I've decided to wait until I get back home to do that.  Or I might upload it onto you tube and embed it...

In other news, I bought a couple of books... one is the sequel to the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.  It's called The Lost Symbol, and I'm looking forward to reading it!  If you're interested in mystery fiction novels, I highly recommend these books, as well as Angels and Demons.

For those interested in art, I also purchased a "Masterstrokes" book about Pastels by Hazel Harrison .  It describes many techniques artists can use when using any kind of pastel medium, as well as examples of reproduced world-famous artwork which illustrate the secret behind these techniques and composition.   It's great for beginners, as well as artists with a little more experience who are looking to try different tehniques, surfaces for pastel work, and gain more information about certain artists' methods such as Degas, Van Gogh, and Turner.   I'm not sure I would use this book alone if I were starting out with Pastels, but it is a good complementary 'course'.

Hand Dancing

This video became very popular recently.  From two professional Irish Dancers, this youtube video was uploaded onto their own channel (youtube.com/user/upandoverit).   They choreographed an entire hand dance to the song We No Speak Americano!  It took them 5 days to come up with the choreography, and 5 days to practice the dance -- did you know that Irish dancers usually learn to practice using their hands first, to imitate the movement of their feet?  :)