Continuing with my series, this is my 3rd painting of belly dancers. There is one more to go as of now. All these paintings have been done based on the photos of Flickr photographer Adelita Choffi. While I was searching for pictures of dancers, I came across her treasure trove of snaps, all of beautiful belly dancers. She was generous enough to allow me to use them as references for paintings. I have favourited several more of her snaps, and will probably get to them after a while.I might even extend this kind of a series to paint the various different forms of dance. There are too many exciting possibilities and I need to think before I jump in.
Let your hair down
16 * 20, Acrylics on Gallery wrapped canvas
Copyright Nithya Swaminathan
I wonder if you have noticed that instead of giving creative titles like dancer 1,2.. n, I have titled them separately. This was a learning when I submitted an entry for the Richeson competition. On my blog the apples were numbered one to eight, and I had a tough time coming up with titles just around the deadline. Huh! I dare not do this 1..n numbering once again. :)
Absolutely brilliant ! the joy of it !
ReplyDeleteThank you Cheti. I'd think its a decent effort if the joy is conveyed. Thanks a lot :)
ReplyDeleteThe titles are as interesting as the series.. All paintings in this series are nice depicting the celebration and the dancing..
ReplyDeleteThanks Ramana. Coming up with titles is more painful than doing a good job of the painting! I am glad they work well:)
ReplyDeleteHi Nithya,
ReplyDeleteLovely paintings and nice blog. A few years back, when we did an exhibition of ceramics, we came across the same problem of naming the pieces. Though it was difficult to come up with creative names at the last moment, we went ahead with naming them and the effort was well appreciated as the visitors could visualise what our ideas were. We invite you to visit out art blog at http://fromourpalette.blogspot.com/
Parvathy & Pushpa