The Sketch Book

dance academy seniors 2013

Congratulations to the graduating senior dancers of the Dance Academy of Loudoun! I'm becoming something of a tradition around the DAL, as each year the moms ask me to paint the seniors as ...

Clara

Here's a sketch of Clara I created for a ballet school in my hometown to help them celebrate their 2012 production of The Nutcracker. Is anyone going to see the ballet?I am dying to go, I say this ...

sketching swans

another ballerina! a swan to be specific. spring time always makes me think of swan lake because that is when we'd preform it back in my ballet days. a funny development of sketching ballerinas ...

ballerina

once upon a time, christmas for me didn't mean endless shopping or tacky christmas parties or making lists for santa, it meant one thing: THE NUTCRACKER. in fact my collective memory of childhood...