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Published: 2006-06-30 08:47:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 4950; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 52
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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 signed gicleΓ© prints on my website: R Young Art
Re-uploaded and made available as prints following requests.
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This was exactly what I was looking for when I types the word 'Dedication'. Beautiful!!
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Hey, this is Egle Spokaite, nice to see a lithuanian ballerina over here 
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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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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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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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Beautiful job on this. I love your style...
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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??
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Thx Matt. This is blended on the canvas. I occasionally layer though...
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That's cool...I've never seen such clean knife work..
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Such an emotive work, beautifullly done.
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