Ballet Project

I have been wanting for a while now,
to take some pictures with a Ballet subject.
Chris talked to her prof and they let me go do it.
=)
(thanks Chris!!)

so here they are,
I took so many, but only a few the
way I wanted for art.
(took the rest for them)

The art ones...

Le sujet



in the gallery


La pointe des chaussons



in the gallery


Balletto



in the gallery


Souplesse



in the gallery


Sur les pointes



in the gallery


Ballet pile



in the gallery


Pendant la classe



in the gallery


Premiere



in the gallery


Centre de gravite



in the gallery


The ones from the class
I took for them.
You can check the rest HERE




there are no mirrors...
they are hidden since they had the
Royal Academy exams...
(been there, done that =P)

it was so much fun!
=D


The work contained in my gallery iscopyrighted©2009
Michelle Rivail. All rights reserved.
My work may not be reproduced, copied, edited,published,
transmitted or uploaded inany way without my written permission.

Listening to: Lykke Li - Possibility
Reading: Tolkien - The Silmarillion
Watching: X-Files + Smallville + The Tudors + Friends + Lost
+ Dark Angel + John Doe + Dr Quinn + Dawson's Creek
Playing: World of Warcraft
Eating: chicken and potato salad
Drinking: coke zero
Quote:
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body."
(Martha Graham)

Skin Color Swatches - Epic Edition

I can't believe it has been 5 years since I made this swatch.
This time I decided to update it and call it Epic Edition
because I saved up all other swatches I make when

I paint skin and added them here, with the highlights I also accumulated.

~Cormrael, my soulmate
(calling him just a boyfriend or a future husband seems stupid)
always says that he is amazed by
how others can create art using something I made.
So because he always tells me that
I've decided that it was time to make this even better.

Making swatches for me is so much fun that
I even did one for the preview picture
and sharing them is fun because
you get to see what others create with it.

In 2008 I got a Daily Deviation for it, made my day,
I was so happy! Featured it in my BLOG and in
my Art Class Blog. This also made me want to improve it even more.

So I hope you guys enjoy the new edition of the swatch.

You can still see the Hair Color + Swatches


What you need to know:

each vertical row is a full color bar for skin tone,
or a full set of skin tones

each horizontal row is a skin highlight set of tones
(meant to brighten and darken light touching
skin in different compositions)

the light colors first and the shadow ones
at the end of each row (from light to dark composition)

you can mix the color rows and have a more complete skin shade

the swatch file has the color bars separated by yellow,
and when they finish and the highlights start, it is green

the zip file has the a folder for the old Skin Color Swatches
If you use Gimp, ~neonyow made a Gimp
version of my swatch, click here to go se it.

the new swatches are made in Photoshop CS5,
so I don't think it will work on older versions,
but that is why you have the -swatch template-
to color pick as you paint

for those who do not have Photoshop,
or have a older version of it, use the Swatch Template.
Open your program of choice (Corel, Gimp, etc)
and open the Swatch Template image,
and color pick the template as you paint...

CREDIT ME PLEASE (thank you), and please show
me what you create with my swatches
(I love when people show me what they made using my swatch!!!)

PS: if any of you make this swatch for an older
version of Photoshop (by color picking it)
or another program, like Gimp, Paint Shop Pro, Corel, etc...
Please send an email to -nep4ever@gmail.com-
(my email) and send me the file and name
of the program it is for (with version)
so I can add it to this zip and credit you in it,
as well add an update on my artist comments.

in the gallery

in the deviantArt News

Listening to: Beck and Bat For Lashes - Let's Get Lost
Reading: Tolkien - The Silmarillion
Playing: World of Warcraft
Watching: X-Files + Smallville + The Tudors + Friends + Lost + Dark Angel +
V + Dr Quinn + Dawson's Creek + The Nanny
Eating: don't know yet
Drinking: coke zero
Quote: "The moment you think you understand
a great work of art, it's dead for you."
(Oscar Wilde)