Rhapsodies

Recently I’ve been making an effort to start working on my professional portfolio again. The group of pictures I’m currently focusing on are all from my favorite Mamas and Papas song,. “Dancing Bear” it’s not one of their better known ones and I’m frequently surprised the number of people haven’t heard of it. The best part about it is all of the imagery it’s like they’re singing a nursery rhyme. For a while I was playing around with the idea of making a children’s book out of it… but really there’s only about five pictures in it so I’ll stick with the portfolio pieces.

Currently I’m working on the chimney sweep from the first verse… Today’s sketch is my preliminary idea for the dancing bear.