The kind of dance doesn’t matter, but the foreground is going to be a violinist, so probably a break dancer or something isn’t so much gonna work.
The lighting in the rest of the painting will be similar to these paintings of mine: illumination, under cover, nude #1 so the dancer should be lit in a way that is easy to incorporate into that kind of scene.
So does anyone have/know of/can help me find any awesome pictures?
http://albums.phanfare.com/paulgillis (Some galleries here have fairly nice hi res photos, specifically capital fringe festival and Jane Franklin Dance.)
Opal, I see you found a picture. But, for future projects, I recommend flickr groups. You might know Flickr as a simple photosharing website, where everybody stores their family pictures. However, Flickr also has groups, where people with entusiasm for photographs “collect” links a certain category of pictures in Flickr. Think of it as pre-selections.
For instance, here is one of the many Flickr groups for dance:
it’s a neat picture, but aside from the fact that I already chose (and started painting) the ones I’m using, that one is too well lit, and it doesn’t show the full figure.
