Session 11- Dancing!

Yesterday's one hour art challenge was on the theme of DANCING! So get those tap-shoes on and prepare for a knees-up as our disparate and desperate team of artists get scribbling!

Alan Bartlett kicks us off with a mad and marvellous mix of tangoing twosomes (plus a firebird but that doesn't begin with T!)

Ana Ripoll shakes a leg at us and a knee and a very frilly skirt in an effervescent evocation of a Can-Can dancer!

Then Anna Lindenberger joins the dance with a colourful couple cutting a rug and a group of celebrating women tripping the light fantastic!

We now take a breather from the human dancers to have a look at the eternal dance of nature from Annalisa Renee with a cat attack drawn during the session and an earlier gorgeous portrait of a kingfisher after his lunch!

Serenely back to the human dancers again with Anne Alderson's tributes to the dancers of classical art plus one from her imagination on the left which is my favourite.

Then on to mad gyrations and fluid movement courtesy of Dan Lish. These figures are so animated!

And here's another animated figure in a short film put together two hours before and one hour during the session
by animator and all-round genius Daniel Boulle. It's called David Boney! Amazing! Here'a link to the animation on Youtube :
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Then we have a history lesson from Elsa Lish! It  isn't widely known that dancing was invented by two gnomes in an ancient forest to relieve the boredom of having no TV or films to watch as Netflix hadn't been invented yet. So these two gnomes, whose names were Bop and Frolix started to dance in the light of the full moon. They got so caught up in the joy of it that they didn't realised they were being watched by a huntsman on his way back to the village with his catch. When Huntsman Harry got to the village he told everyone what he had seen and soon everyone was jumping and gyrating and having a jolly good time! Is that right, Elsa? Or did I dream it?

My own humble efforts taken from photos of free-form ballet dancers, lindy-hoppers and the twisters from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World!

Marina Renee-Cemmick's sketch this week is a dynamic exercise in black and white shapes and negative space
inspired by choreography called Slip.

Unable to attend the session Rosie Lee produced this rather fabulous drawing later and e-mailed it to me. I asked her  what the inspiration was behind it and she said, "I was drawing from videos of people dancing on Youtube, their movements and shapes. A figure started to emerge and it and of evolved into this gestural dancer." Well it looks great to me!

And a newcomer to the group Sophie Birritta drew this romantic and intimate pose of a couple dancing. She says that she hasn't been drawing long but the flow of movement in this is great. Nice one, Sophie! 

Also unable to log onto the live session due to the lack of a good internet in their home in Morocco are twins Khawla Sdour (on the left) and Somaya Sdour (on the right) who neverless drew these lovely delicate images during the same hour then sent them to me later. One day I hope we can see them and chat while we draw together. 

A late entry from Jools who normally supplies several colourful dazzling images but was very limited on time this week.
What a complex, vibrant scene the produced in less than an hour. Amazing!
So that's it until next time when the theme chosen by Dan will be "Trees and People"!
And remember- keep on dancing! AND DRAWING!
Paul
xxx

The on-line scribblers!