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There was a kind of street festival in downtown Alpine over the weekend.
Our office was closed, but our neighbors (a gallery and a salon) both had art openings, and there was a Tahitian dance performance and a band playing along the street.

To participate in our absence, we put some dancing people up in our windows!

Here are some views of them from outside and inside (back-lit):















They were done on a big roll of brown Kraft paper, and painted with a half-inch brush in house paint.
I didn't anticipate how chunky the house paint would be, so I had to give up a lot of the detail in the sketches and go for straight, speedy calligraphic effect. I think it came out pretty well, overall!

To prepare, I did a dozen or so gesture sketches while politely requesting that my wife dance around the house. Here are a couple of poses I used for the finals: