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This joyful painting depicts a beautiful ballerina completing a perfect leap. One of my favorite ballets is the Nutcracker set to Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, so it just seemed natural to suggest the music behind her. This painting was done with a palette knife and is richly layered with texture on her tutu and in the design that frames her leap. It also is painted in varying shades of metallic gold, silver and bronze, which go so well with today's decorating trends.

I have been an artist since I was a little girl growing up in central North Dakota. My artistic pursuits of drawing, painting, writing, and singing have brought me great joy throughout my life. Hours fly by when you can lose yourself in doing something you love! I channeled my interest in writing and visual arts into a fairly successful career as a public relations professional and rose through the ranks in communications and marketing departments in energy, healthcare and higher education. My spare time was spent honing my skills as a painter and singer. My formal education focused on communications and business, but I took drawing and painting classes whenever possible from local and regional artists and online, as I searched for a...