Loony Bin Art

Broken Dancer

Posted in Illustration Friday by johanna on April 18, 2009

fallendancer

They told the broken dancer that she’d never dance again.

I can  dance, she said.

No, they said, you’re broken. And they left her alone in the dark.

Then one day they found her on the floor with wings at her back and with a quiet smile she flew up into the sky.
And danced and danced and danced.
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Illustration Friday – Impossibility
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  1. mark said, on April 18, 2009 at 5:16 am

    beautiful joh

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  2. TMartin said, on April 18, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    This is really lovely. What was your media? The picture is perfect for the “story”. It’s magic.

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    • johanna said, on April 19, 2009 at 2:50 am

      thanks tmartin! :-) I used mostly acrylic paint with some colored pencil plus a scanned beethoven sheet music page that was added digitally later :-)

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  3. cartuneman said, on April 18, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    I love this I’d love to have a copy of this in a frame up on my wall thank you for the gorgeous work!

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  4. studio lolo said, on April 18, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    This is fabulous Johanna! So inspiring and hopeful.
    Thank you.

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  5. Saurooon said, on April 18, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    Hi,
    Everything dynamic and very positively! :)
    Thanks

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  6. kathyhare said, on April 20, 2009 at 8:13 am

    a beautiful image…

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  7. E du Plessis said, on April 20, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    Wow, it is really beautifully done, the texture doesn’t overpower the subject.

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  8. Eli said, on April 20, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Vary nice work and I like the text that goes with it too!

    Thanks for your nice comments on my work.

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  9. Nessa Dee said, on April 22, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    Beautiful!

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  10. denise said, on April 23, 2009 at 5:26 am

    Haunting and beautiful.

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  11. jerrychicken said, on April 25, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    Love that, and I don’t know why – thats the best way to love art.

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  12. Tammie said, on May 19, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    So very very lovely and the spirit of life is so unending…..

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  13. Lysh said, on October 2, 2009 at 11:46 am

    Your pieces always have such a depth of emotion. I particularly like this piece… the colours, the mood, the blurriness… it’s fascinating.

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