Degas Vignette

My Weekly-ish Challenge partner had this prompt: 

Paint a vignette from a painting of one of the Old Masters. 

• Look up "Old Masters" to see exactly which artist is and who isn't. (FYI - There were 25 listed.)
• Decide who I'll choose.  
• Go to the library to check out some big books. (It's the old-fashioned way, but it works just as well as it always did. The internet is very guarded with its images of the Old Master paintings.  You can see them, but only enlarge them to a couple of square inches.)

• Find a painting that I'd like to spend time with.
• Choose the small portion to focus on.

I have the quote "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. - Edgar Degas" on a small card hanging beside my painting table, so I knew I wanted to find a way to incorporate that.

When I was "assigned" this one, I wasn't planning on enjoying it. But, much to my surprise, I thoroughly did.

Oil Painting on 9"x 12" Canvas Board, Vignette Copy of Degas Original

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She Twirls

My dad turned 92 last month.

We reserved the activity room in his retirement center, and my siblings who live near joined him for dinner.  Afterwards the grandkids and great grandkids who live near showed up for cake, ice cream, and fun.  

One came straight from his guitar lesson and played Grandpa a song.  Another came from his piano lesson and played his song for Grandpa. Then we went out to the courtyard where the little ones ran around... except for one... 
              She twirled...

Original Oil Painting on 16"x 16" Wrapped Canvas
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