Dancing Sugarplums

I'm flitting around, doing some seasonal shopping, dreaming up gifts, making said gifts, fashioning festive outfits, and grand jeté-ing and swinging out to Christmas tunes at every opportunity!

On Pointe

These point shoes are an old pair from my ballerina cousin. They are so elegant and sweet.  

The Sugar Plum Fairy's Adventure

This is my children's book cover illustration in response to a contest prompt from Lilla Rogers Studio. You may have noticed the little Make Art That Sells image on the side of my blog. I'm thrilled to say that I am taking MATS A & B, Assignment Bootcamp, and Creating Collections for Home Décor, which will bring me into fall 2017 with creative goodness! I'll probably be sharing some of my projects here and there along the way, so stay tuned! Here goes a long-awaited artistic adventure!

December Bulletin 2016

Angelic chords, a flutter of creativity, and leaps into a hushed, snowy blanket

An American in Paris

 An American in Paris is a fun musical full of exuberant song and dance set to an exclusively Gershwin score. It stars the dynamic dancer, singer, actor, and choreographer Gene Kelly alongside impressively flexible Leslie Caron, who has a contagious ear-to-ear smile.

 The 17 minute ballet at the end of the film is the real stunner, as it brings to life the art of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Utrillo, Rousseau, and Dufy in rhythm and vivacious sets and costumes.

 This storefront is so delightfully masculine, as was Gene Kelly's style of dance.

Notice all the vibrant stripes used against the simple leaf shapes.

 Gene Kelly even transforms into Toulouse-Lautrec's Chocolat in a hilariously wiggly dance!

 It is a riot of colour.

Magnifique!

Land of Sweets

The costumes, music, and magical festivity of The Nutcracker Ballet leave me in jaw-dropped awe. My Land of Sweets fabric (which I struggled to narrow down my ideas for!) is in Spoonflower's Nutcracker challenge.