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Submitted: June 30, 2006
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Original oil painting on 120cm x 60cm stretched canvas, produced entirely using a knife.

Soloist Ballerina Egle Spokaite performs as famed athletic Russian ballerina Olga Spessivtseva in Boris Eifman's mythologized Red Gizelle. Her Dedication to a Performance passionately expressed as is her trademark.

There's many more figurative, dance and portrait fine art original oil paintings, pastels and gicleé prints on my website: R Young Art

Prints are now only available via my website, though I do sign them. I have disabled all prints of my artwork on DA in protest as they removed my featured artwork, didn't adhere to their own policies and ignored my communications so I don't see why I should contribute financially with print commissions...
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*fagashlil:iconfagashlil: Jun 30, 2006, 2:53:33 AM
Such an emotive work, beautifullly done.
~Lumptard:iconLumptard: Jun 30, 2006, 8:52:48 AM
Holy Shit!!!..You did this with a painting knife?!?!...I can't even see any knife marks..This is so good..How did you get it to look so clean using only a knife??
~deathbyvicki:icondeathbyvicki: Jun 30, 2006, 8:16:15 PM
Beautiful job on this. I love your style...

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~deathbyvicki:icondeathbyvicki: Jun 30, 2006, 8:25:58 PM
I forgot to ask you. How long did this take? Your work is wonderful as well as extraordinarily realistic. It's amazing that you did this with a knife...

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~ryoung:iconryoung: Jul 1, 2006, 2:49:32 AM
Thx. This particular painting took around 2 hours to sketch, then around 20 or so hours to paint over two weeks, as I paint late at night when I get a few hours to myself in my studio... Knife painting is much quicker for me as I use a very limited colour palette and mix & blend only on the canvas to save time. I am very impatient, easily become bored and need to move on to the next artwork...

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Richard - R Young Art (Original artwork and signed gicleé prints are available via my website)
~ryoung:iconryoung: Jul 1, 2006, 2:54:42 AM
Thx Matt. This is blended on the canvas. I occasionally layer though...

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Richard - R Young Art (Original artwork and signed gicleé prints are available via my website)
~Lumptard:iconLumptard: Jul 3, 2006, 9:04:18 AM
That's cool...I've never seen such clean knife work..=)
~Ninjerina:iconNinjerina: Jul 22, 2006, 9:37:12 AM
Ooh ballet - one of my favorite subjects! It is interesting the angle you used to capture this moment from giselle. Traditionally in photographs I am used to seeing the arms folded up view from the side or front. Definetly awesome that you did this just using a knife. I can't fathom trying to blend solely using that utensil!

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~blonde-thinking:iconblonde-thinking: Jul 25, 2006, 8:40:07 PM
wow thats amasing, nice job

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