Costume design from Sheherazade

Watercolour and ink drawing
after a design by Leon Bakst
for the Diaghilev ballet.

Ink drawing from a 1950's photo

Water colour of a figure walking up
a sand dune.

Ballet Costume

Ink and line drawing from a black/white photo
about ballet costume. From my sketch book 2009.

Close-up of legs and feet from the ink drawing below. The Rakes Progress.
From a 2009 sketchbook.

Two figures from an old 1940's photograph. Oil on canvas
2010.

Pencil drawing of resting dancers
(detail) 2013. From a photo in a book
containing black and white images of dancers.

Dancing Fox

Dancing Fox. Pen and ink drawing on
cartridge paper 2012.

I imagined this as I listened
to music by Percy Grainger.
I think I may do some more
and choose other animals, but
I do like the sly fox.

A strange drawing of a figure from a ballet, or maybe posed
in a studio. From my 2010 sketch book. Inks and watercolour.

Shadowy card cut -outs. Made in 2009 during my art course.

Some of the work below is recent and some from past sketch books or art courses.
I like to work from black and white photos although I enjoy using a range of materials.
I took lots of photos of the card one below and I may post some more. The figures where quite small
but it was fun to place them in different positions to make various scenes.

Shadow Theatre

shadowy cut-outs made from card and lit with a strong light from above.
I arranged them to look like a theatre or a stage scene, I think it looks effective

Dancer practising. Purple ink on smooth paper. 2009

Ink and washes of water colour. From a photo in a book about
ballet in the 1940's. I completed this in 2009.

               The Rakes Progress.

Costume for Sheherazade

A dancer in costume for  Sheherazade. I used watercolours
inks and gold paint. The original design is by Leon Bakst.
I made this image in 2012