I have always had a fascination with dance and would often daydream as a child of becoming a famous ballerina dancing in Swan Lake and having hundreds of fans clapping and cheering me in the audience.

However, I never put in the hours of practice that was needed for my dreams to become a reality but it did love to draw ballet-inspired artworks. With practice, I have gotten a little better each time and become a lot more confident as an artist.

lately, I have been doing a lot of pencil drawings with a colour pop of red. I wanted to do three different ones in the theme of ballet and all with the same colour pop. As you can see from the three drawings below, I chose to colour the dress in the first one, the ribbon in the second and the ballet shoes in the third.

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The rest is done in pencil and drawn on watercolour paper. I love using Faber Castell pencils because they give me the desired effect with the blending techniques I use and come in a handy tin for easy storage.

The Faber Castell Watercolour Pad is just the right size and thickness and I like the effect it helps me create with blending and shading.

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