Dancing delights

One of the major briefs for this term is to do a pastiche of an artist of our choice. I've decided to go with the French poster artist Paul Colin. His work is quite big within the swing dance community, with pretty much every woman dancer (including me!) having this famous poster of Josephine Baker on their wall. He did many a poster in his lifetime and even taught the art of poster design, but he is most well known for the Josephine Baker piece and his portfolio of "Le Tumulte Noir", inspired by Josephine and her fellow dancers. I've got hold of a copy of a modern reproduction of the portfolio and have been practicing drawing dancing figures in the style of Paul Colin. They're all based on photographs of me or my friends - I'm hoping to do a whole set of dancers that know and inspire me. Its been really nice to reconnect to my dancing after being away for so long ...