Monotype Dancer

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A perfect pose of strength and grace

Posted by Heather Love on Sat 02 Mar 14:54:15

Oh I do like this Gudrun.

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Sat 02 Mar 15:46:23

Great pose and a great print Gudrun.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sat 02 Mar 16:28:49

Thank you all! I may do some more of these during the week.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sat 02 Mar 16:58:51

Good figure work. I like your mark making.

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Sat 02 Mar 20:54:43

Thank you!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sat 02 Mar 21:27:45

Love this ingenious pose!

Posted by Thalia Stones on Sun 03 Mar 06:54:00

Thank you Thalia!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sun 03 Mar 07:50:10

I love this, Gudrun.

Posted by Ellen Mooney on Mon 04 Mar 10:14:24

Thanks Ellen. I am thinking about the next one.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Mon 04 Mar 10:29:48

Hang on Studio Wall

02/03/2024

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Many know that the subject for a lot of my work in my multitude of media includes dancers and dancing generating movement even in stillness. This particular work captures the balance between the beauty in stillness and power and strength; there is a lightness and grace which belies the effort required. Added the to this complexity is my method of creating a monotype print. Ink is applied directly on a plate, a perspex one in my case. This print is a 1/1 monotype and archival, 25x35cm.

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Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley

"The good painter has to paint two principal things, that is to say, man and the intention of his mind. The first is easy and the second difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gestures and movements of the limbs." (MK388) From: Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work, p16, J…

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