BELLY DANCE PERFORMANCE IN CHICAGO PARK

Belly Dance Performance, Independence Park, Chicago, 10 x 13 inch ink and colored pencil drawing
 by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

Sometimes I don't have to travel very far to find my subjects.  These ladies are part of a troupe from the Arabesque Dance Studios who did a belly dance performance the Sunday before last at this year's first Farmers Market in Independence Park, a short walk from where I live on the Northwest Side of Chicago.  They looked great, but constant motion made them as hard to draw from life as the alligators I tried to sketch in the Everglades last year.  So I did the same thing I did in Florida-- I photographed them and then sketched from my photos.