Posted By admin on September 12, 2009
After the show at the Capitol last month, I pondered on what to do with my ballerina and flamingo dancer paintings. I wanted them to be shown in a setting where they would be enjoyed and maybe even inspiring to those that love dance! Kathy at Dance Images in Bowling Green was kind enough to let me hang my "Dancers" at her dance studio. I've also taken pictures of some of the classes there and I have some wonderful shots that hopefully will become paintings.
Here is another ballerina painting from the Capitol Show. I chose this pose because of the light and the gracefulness of the dancer.
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Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
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Posted By admin on September 5, 2009
This is my study from a couple of weeks ago from my Live Model Session on Monday night. This was challenging for me because doing the whole figure instead of just the head required a lot of drawing and measuring to get the proportions right. Because of the time constraint, I was not able to develope her head as much as I would normally. The very last touch was her toes!
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Posted By admin on August 28, 2009
This is a quick study (about 30-40 minutes) of a model from life. I was pleased with it but I had wiped down the three previous attempts at other poses. I think it took me a little while to get warmed up.
Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
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Posted By admin on August 18, 2009
A couple of years ago my husband and I went to South Dakota on a motorcycle trip and this is one of the beautiful rivers that we saw. I believe the atmosphere is what attracted me to this scene. I'm ready to go back to see Mount Rushmore, Iron Mountain, the Needles Highway. . .
I don't know why but I had to take a picture of every fly fisherman that I saw (and there were several).
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Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
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Posted By admin on August 11, 2009
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Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
Anyone that follows my blog knows that I love to paint Ballerinas. So here is another one of my favorites. I think for me, it's all about the shoes in this painting.
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Posted By admin on August 6, 2009
I've already posted one of these but decided to post the series of 4 dancers. I love red-I believe I interited this love from my Grandmother Mazie that loved red and purple. She would always use lots of color in the quilts that she made. She made me a brown & white quilt (at my request) and for years she said it was the ugliest quilt that she had made--ouch!
I was striving to lay the paint on thick and to show movement in the paintings.
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Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
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Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
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Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
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Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
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Posted By admin on August 2, 2009
I'm back from vacation all rested, sunburnt and rejuvinated from my trip to the beach! My husband and I took a motorcycle trip to South Carolina--Folly Beach--and I just disconnected for the week. I did manage to sneak in a trip to Savannah GA and Charleston, SC while relaxing. While in Charleston, I spent the day visiting several Galleries on "Gallery Row" admiring the beautiful pieces of art on display there. Such a treat and a reminder that I need to PAINT MORE! I'm still attending my Monday Night sessions in Franklin TN, although I did miss a few while working on the shows. Here are my four latest paintings of models from life.
The first painting below is from 2 weeks ago. I've just finished a 6 week drawing class with Dawn Whitelaw and Erin Jones and tried to incorporate what I learned in the class. I'm trying to spend more time in the designing stage instead of diving right in but when you only have 3 hours it's very hard to wait.
On the model below, I tried to capture the weight of her beautiful thick hair in this study.
This model had great hair and lovely lips!
I like to think of this model as my Greek Goddess. She has the perfect profile.
Once again, I value your opinion and your visit to my blog!
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Posted By admin on July 22, 2009
Faye and I were "Posing" in front of the Gallery in a spare moment during our opening reception. We had a wonderful crowd and lots of fun.
I named this painting "Practice Makes Perfect", another one of my ballerina series that I did for the Capitol Show.
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Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
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Posted By admin on July 17, 2009
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Rhonda Hartis Smith © 2009
here's a closeup
White roses are a favorite of mine so I wanted to paint a bouquet for the show and I have to admit I really struggle with florals. This is from life but before I could finish it I had to buy more roses and really needed to get a 3rd batch but refused to (lol).
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