Pretty in Pink

My sister and I went to a really fun evening last weekend. For the ticket price of $20/person, we went for a night out to our local Arts centre for a painting party. It was a wonderful evening!

The gallery room (where there was a showing of oil paintings on the walls) was set up really beautifully with about 17 large artist's easels in the centre and small round tables with linen, crystal and China surrounding the easels. We were welcomed at the door and given our table number and were ushered in to the bar where we could have wine or beer. All of the supplies were provided; canvas, acrylic paints, paint brushes, water buckets and once we had a few sips of our cocktails, we began to paint whatever inspired us.  While we began painting, hostesses served antipasto/charcuterie to our tables that included; Brie, goat and Gouda cheeses, fresh baguettes and crackers, grapes, strawberries, pate, salamis and a beautiful fig sauce.  It was all truly outstanding. We had a lot of fun and vowed to come again with a few of our friends. What a great way to spend a Saturday night.

I had been thinking a lot about ballerinas lately; pointe shoes, tutus and pink ribbon and decided to paint a picture with this theme in mind.

Here is the picture I painted. I started out thinking the colours were too dark when I first applied them to the canvas, but once the paint dried, the colours became a little washed out. Regardless, I hope you like it. The colours are really a very soft pink, but show up more peachy in this light.

A second painting I painted, showing what is really underneath all that crinolin.

( Please do not use these images for your own use without my permission. These are my own original paintings and as such, are copyrighted under my name.)

I hope you like them.

Rosie