Christa’s Musings

My friends and I arranged an art show at DeSoto Row called HIPnotize, about Bellydancers! There were 6 of us involved, most of us recent SCAD alumni. It went really well! And of course we had live bellydancers at the opening. Being a bellydancer, I was obligated The artists! Anna Cooper, Carrie Padgett, Mary Larsen, Me and Alexandra!

Here is Carrie hanging up some of the artwork. She did the swirly paintings, and Mary did the dancers.

These are Anna’s paintings. She does them in acrylic with a super small paintbrush. The piece on the left turns from a skirt to fossils in the ground. Awesome!

Here are Mary’s girls. There was a ton of other art and Anna has a great blog post with pictures of everything.

Here is my contribution to the show- two 16″x40″ acrylic paintings. I’m so glad to have them done. I finished them half an hour before we hung the show- hahaha. It took me two days longer than I expected to finish them, since I’m so used to working digitally I forgot how much patience it takes.

Here I am after we hung the paintings! You can’t tell but I was spastically happy. And I had a cute outfit.

Cairo on the Coast Dancing!

Unfortunately we had to dance inside the gallery because it rained all day- we’d been planning to have all the dancing outside so people could wander in and out of the gallery at will, but we just took breaks between songs instead.

Thanks to everyone who was involved and came to the show. It really was fun, and I love you all. Please excuse my copious use of exclamation points in this post.