Although I do many landscape paintings, because that is what is in most demand,My great love is in doing portrait and figure work. To the left is one of my portrait commissions, done last year that I'm proud of, it measures 30x36, and took me six sittings, about twenty hours of work.
This is a portrait, in pastel, of a dancer, done in 1977. This work has been one of my showpieces. Valerie's bone structure and beautiful posture made this work such a great success. It has brought me many commissions. Dancers are experts at body language, which is why I have done many paintings of them.
Here is my ballet showpiece, done in1977,which belongs to a collector of my ballet pictures in New York. This work took me six months to complete, with thirty sittings with the model,ninety hours of work. I work totally from life because of the sublety of color and tone cannot be seen working from a photo. Although the pose is passive I believe I captured the posture, and the turnout of the right leg, which is characteristic of a well trained dancer.
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