After finishing the series of drawings, Big Man Dancing, I began to revise other sketches of female dancers that I had observed. For some of these, I began to dabble in color.
In the pieces that remained black and white, I employed the Chinese ink and brush in traditional calligraphic ways.
Dots, lines, and masses were embellished with textural details and tonal gradations using charcoal pencils, pastels and vine charcoal.
Some drawings evolved in to something almost magical, like this dancer on a tree stump whose hands appear to dispense something that unravels and becomes integrated in to the tree.
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