Secret Dancer

This is what I've been working on lately. It's a dancer which is based on a painting taken from the Internet plus a photo of my niece in a similar pose. It was never intended to be a direct copy, in any case I think that the original was painted with some kind of permanent rose which isn't part of my collection of paints.

I started with a practice sketch which was some kind of combination of the 2 with some errors along the way, which probably helped later on.

The main painting is fairly small, roughly 10 inches by 10 inches and the results a pleasing with lots of borrowing of blues and reds/oranges in the skin tones.

I listened to this song whilst painting it a few times and I think it links quite well to the painting as my neice looks similar (long hair basically) and plays the piano very well. See below for the links:-

http://open.spotify.com/track/4kjiVK4IZWYADcPQR8kzsh

http://youtu.be/Z2gUYEhtBKg

Oh, and come and find me on twitter @rorysketch I'll start publishing my updates there.