We Can Dance

We Can Dance

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​​We Can Dance
acrylic on wood panel
20 x 16 x .25 inches
This item is unframed 
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I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything is out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We're doing it from pole to pole - MEN WITHOUT HATS

Everything is out of control...

Feels that way lately, doesn't it?

Avoiding the news makes me anxious.  Paying too much attention to it makes me sad.  Frustration emerges in my inability to have any great impact on any of it, though I continues to make efforts where I can.

But I will be doubly-dipped if I am going to let all that rob me of what joy each day can bring!  No, no, NO! 

We can dance - even if we aren't great dancers.  Even if it is out of character.   Maybe not as well as this Santa, who really has some moves!

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​About the art:  I'm continuing my exploration of incorporating the wood panel color and texture into paintings.  It feels very exciting to me ! For this one I began with a sketch and created a stencil to mask off the figure shape.  I taped the top and bottom and then put on a smooth coat of black gesso, preserving the wood for Santa's figure.  Then some painstaking pen and ink for all of the line work, and a tiny Posca Pen in white for the highlights.  Though a figure of this size and detail might seem tedious, it is actually quite meditative.  It requires full presence to be in control of every line - no mind wandering when using pen and ink on wood!  I'm delighted with this one - grinning every time I walk past it. :)

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