Egyptian Dancers with Shamadans
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This may not be the best looking painting I have done, but it is as yet the most heroic one. I didn't give up on it regardless of how hopeless and overworked it looked at times. What a Journey! As for the story behind, it was a recently emerged memory of the Egyptian Dancers I saw 19 years ago, at an international folklore festival organized in my hometown in Bulgaria each summer. These dancers looked like characters from an Arabian Nights fairy tale!!!
About the Artist
Vanya Marinova
I am originally from Bulgaria. I have never been to art school, college or university. I started teaching myself drawing and painting with Betty Edwards' "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and, at some point, continued by myself, experimenting with colours, light and shadow. I love painting…
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