Posts Tagged ‘tango’

Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo

Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo

They are two of the best (and my favorite) tango dancers and instructors ever and are wonderful performers.

I drew this on the same night I drew the Naked Tree… very late at night or very early in the morning, depending on how you look at it. I finished this drawing at 4:30AM and went to bed somewhere around 5:30AM.

On Failure

Tango Feet

Judo and tango are hard things to do. Learning technique and gaining skill in either judo or tango isn’t easy. Try something new and you will not get it right the first time. Or the fifth. Maybe by the sixth or seventh time, you’ll have the idea down. But you forgot to do this or that and you need to put some soul and expression into it. And how about the timing? Or the music? Or during sparring or on a crowded dance floor?

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