This is my first flamenco dancer painting after five years! Painting these portraits takes me home, to my beautiful Spain and my hometown Benalup, in the south of Spain where there is a big passion for flamenco. Ole!!!!
Not long ago, I used similar colors for a flamenco painting. I really liked the result, that is why I wanted to repeat the combination. The name for this painting refers to the long train some flamenco dresses have, that is called "bata de cola".
This painting's title is a pun, playing with the words fan and fun, whose pronunciations are quite similar. Dancing flamenco with a fan is definitely fun!
I just can't get tired of painting dancers!
There are so many different perspectives and postures that you can paint in flamenco dancing.
In this one, I wanted to capture the dancer spinning around.
I hope you all enjoy this. x
Close up detail of dancer's hands playing castanets
Back by popular demand, here is a flamenco dancer playing castanets. This time I painted it on a bigger canvas, I hope you enjoy the result! With this painting, I would like to wish you all a lovely summer holidays, I will be back in August with more ideas! Have fun! xx
I have been home recently, that's why I have been absent for a bit. But I am back with loads of ideas! I hope you enjoy this cute painting, definitely inspired by my last visit to Spain.
Flamenco is a very important part of my culture, especially from the area I am from. What I like the most about flamenco dancing is the movement and the rhythm bailaores have. Olé!!
Here is a close-up of the painting, so you can appreciate the mixture of colours.