#242 Ballet Slippers 11/6/19

I loved my larger pointe shoe painting so much, that I started to search for more ballet related photos to paint.  I spent an hour, and found some nice ones...and since the evening was rapidly being depleted, I selected the most simple one to do tonight.  Super simple cartoon drawing, but I figured I could paint it into something more elegant.  I love the peach tones on these slippers, which must be the standard color for ballerinas since it was the rare photograph of these shoes that wasn't peachy pink.

I read somewhere that one of the famous French painters, Monet, would paint the same subject over and over, waterlilies.  So, while I like this painting, I think it could be looser, I could do better at reaching the vision in my head.  I could be like Monet and consider it a study, and paint 6 different renditions of the same thing, see where it goes.  Each week, paint the cartoon ballet slippers to gather myself but expand myself too.  This "first version" was traced.  After several days of not tracing, I look at this and think "it would be better if the lines weren't so perfect."  I should have sketched it.  That will be the gather/expand exercise on version two.