The Nutcracker! 2012 Recital

Clara

Clara and the Nutcracker

Gingerbread

Candy Cane

Doll

Angel

  I have just finished 18 paintings for the

Nutcracker performance by 5678 Dance Studio

Chinese Dancer

on December 15, 2012. What fun!  It's been a push to get them done on time, but I'm very pleased with the results.  Each showcases a costume from this Nutcracker performance and bring out the character's role in the story beautifully.  Every one is done in acrylics on 16"x20" canvas.  The paintings have turned out great but the ornaments I have created from them are nothing but cute, cute, cute. Every year at Christmas, I pull out all the ornaments that bring back the best memories for me and my family, and I can envision that these ornaments could do the same in years to come for a young girl to remember her role in this production.  For others, the Nutcracker is such a beloved Christmas tale that any one of these ornaments would make a great memory for someone's favorite part of the story..  Check out the ornaments here!

Doll Baby

Spanish Dancer

Sugar Plum Fairy

Mouse

Snow Baby

Arabian Dancer

Dew Drop

Marzipan

Snow

Tin Soldier

Snow Queen

Katie I and Katie II

Katie I - Ice Cream

Katie II - Take Me Out To The Ball Game

   During the Spring Recital, a grandmother asked me to do two paintings, one of Katie in her recital costume for this year and one from the recital in 2010.   Since the two are companion pieces, I made the backgrounds identical.

Sarah

Just completed Sarah, a special order, from the dance recital.  Enjoyed painting this one.  Sarah and Goin' To The Chapel will be given as gifts to two sisters tomorrow night at their Mother's birthday!  The colors were so soft in this one, I hope the picture does it justice.
   I worked this in between entertaining my two nephews for the week and working on a mural with Rhonda Storer at Shiloh Middle School.  Two more special orders to go and school murals coming up!