New Spinoff Blogs

It's been kind of a long time since I posted any of my doodles here. It's not that I have too few but that there are too many. I've finally created a special blog just for my doodles, which I'm updating at least twice a day:

http://yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com/


And I just started a companion blog for my sketches:

http://yourdailysketch.tumblr.com/

Check them often. Follow them. Reblog 'em.
I find that a fun way to view the pictures is to select the archive and then choose any that grab your attention. The doodle blog already has a respectable flood of striking images:

http://yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com/archive

Ballet Sketches

This past spring and summer, my daughter, Molly Palmer, performed in a ballet, Circus Polka, in workshop performances for the School of American Ballet.

Circus Polka was originally choreographed by George Balanchine for elephants at the Ringling Brothers Circus, to music composed for the occasion by Igor Stravinsky. Jerome Robbins later choreographed the present version for little girls, which became part of the SAB repertory.

Molly performed the dance at SAB´s spring showcase in June and then again at their summer residency in Saratoga Springs, New York. During my turns escorting her to rehearsals, I managed a few sketches of the dancers and their families, which I made into a souvenir booklet to share with the kids and instructors. They all seemed pretty pleased with it.

These students and their teachers work unbelievably hard and the result was truly amazing. Backing them up are whole families bending over backwards to make it all happen. They have my gratitude and respect.