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Marilyn Monroe and The Little Dancer by Degas

Never seen this photo before and had to share. 

Marilyn Monroe and The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer by Edgar Degas. Taken in 1956 by director John Huston at the home of producer Bill Goetz.

Albany Gallery Summer Show in Cardiff June 27th- Sept 6th

Summer Show in Albany Gallery, Cardiff 

starts June 27th until Sept 6th

A changing exhibition of work by more than 60 artists including Ceri Auckland Davies, Gwyn Roberts, David Barnes, Jane Corsellis, Zoe James-Williams, Muriel Delahaye, William Selwyn, Sion McIntyre, Nick Holly, Will Roberts and many more.

At the The Russian State Ballet and Opera House performing Swan Lake in Swansea Grand Theatre Dec 5th

I was very excited to be invited to capture The Russian State Ballet and Opera House performing to a Large Live 30 piece Orchestra last night as Swansea Grand Theatre.

A beautiful production with superb dancers, Swan Lake was a real pleasure to capture and can't wait to paint. Surrounded by white tutus I particularly liked these costumes as the skirts were a little longer and reminded me of Degas paintings. Very pretty and inspiring.

Take from Interview with South Wales Evening Post
Former Bolshoi Theatre Ballet dancer Konstantin Uralsky was directing The Russian State Ballet and Opera House in a spellbinding new production of Tchaikovsky’s perennial favourite Swan Lake at Swansea Grand Theatre.
This timeless fairytale of good versus evil will be played out by some of the most talented Russian dancers on tour, backed up by a gigantic orchestra of over 30 musicians.
“The Russian State Ballet and Opera House was founded to represent quality and passion for ballet and opera at the highest level,” says producer Alexej Ignatow.
“Every year we aim to bring a different artist to the UK, which means that although you may have seen a Swan Lake ballet before — next time the set, costumes, artists and even choreography will be different. It will feel like a different show altogether, but still with the same high level of quality.”


A Definate Must Please check out the website below for up and coming productions in ballet and opera, you won't be disappointed!

Amande Concerts Website

Pastel with Art Class Part 2

After looking at pastel through Degas my classes took the techniques they had learnt and applied it to their own work which I think is a vital part of the teaching process and help create their own style and confidence. A selection below with more to come!!

Joy

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Sarah

Shelagh

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Sue

joan

Brian

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Vivian

Mike

Lyndsey

Sue

Tim

Janine

Brian

Andrea



 

Pastel in Art Class, Looking at Degas

Teaching pastel to my art classes which they have all thoroughly enjoyed as you can see from some examples below. I showed the use of pastel through artists such as myself and Degas. I found a lovely photo from the Frick Museum of a photograph of a little ballerina recreated as Degas must have drawn her. I thought it would be a good idea to pastel from a photo rather than direct from an actual Degas painting so they could view the ballerina as he would have. Also as you can see, some of my students loved it so much they went on to copy some of Degas' actual pastel sketches as well.


After Degas