Bone Tired, Ballerina, Ballet Dancer, Oil Painting Original Art Not Print Framed, Theatre Lover, Artword By Alex Jabore - Clearance

One of a kind artworkSize: 47 x 47 x 7 cm (framed) / 37 x 37 x 0.5 cm (unframed) / 30 x 30 cm (actual image size)This artwork is sold framedSigned on the frontReady to hangArtist's description: I love painting the ballerina's performance, the seemingly effortless grace she is able to conjure, but mostly I'm interested in the athleticism, determination and brute strength it takes to create this illusion. This model is a very talented dancer called Gabriella Botha, pausing after a hard practice. Ballet shoes laid to the side she rests with her head on her arms, too exhausted to move. The tutu is spread around her waist, forcing her to hunch over it slightly, the shape framing her almost like a chair rest. This is one of a series of painting based on ballerinas, painted in oils on canvas board.The artwork is framed in solid wood, custom made frames by Frames Express, painted in dark blue/grey , 55 ml thick with mount and acrylic glass.Materials used:Artist quality oil paints on cotton canvas

“André has taught an entire generation of kids about sportsmanship, how to compete whether you win or lose and just the sheer joy of physical activity,” said Roland De Wolk, whose two grown sons played sports with Preston and still go back to the school to visit him. “André is a great guy and an unsung hero of Oakland. Over and over again, I’ve seen him resolve difficult situations and help troubled kids, not just through sports but homework and artwork as well. It’s people like him that make this world turn.”.

Margaret Hesson, who has been Montclair Elementary’s Adventure Time on-site director for six years, said Preston is a big part bone tired, ballerina, ballet dancer, oil painting original art not print framed, theatre lover, artword by alex jabore of the community, “Parents sign their kids up just to be with André, even when they don’t need the after-school care,” said Hesson, adding that there are some 250 students in Adventure Time at Montclair, including about 70 in Preston’s sports programs, Lily Malone, a fourth-year student at Montclair Elementary, said she’s signed up for all the sports that Preston offers — football, baseball, basketball and soccer — but especially likes soccer and football..

“He’s really good at being a coach because he’s kind if someone gets hurt and makes them feel better so that they can keep playing,” said Malone, who also attends Preston’s summer camps at Roberts Park in the Oakland hills. “I like the way he lets girls do all the things that boys do — he treats boys and girls equally.”. Quincy Washington, 9, a third-grader at Montclair Elementary and son of Oakland’s Vice Mayor and District 4 Councilmember Annie Campbell Washington, said basketball is his favorite sport.

“I get excited to play basketball with the team after school, André makes it fun and easy to learn a new bone tired, ballerina, ballet dancer, oil painting original art not print framed, theatre lover, artword by alex jabore sport,” Washington said, Preston was born in Chicago on April 8, 1962 — “the same year Ringo joined the Beatles.”, His family moved first to New York and then to Oakland when Preston was 12 and settled in the Lake Merritt neighborhood, He graduated from Westlake Middle School and Berkeley High, earning a track-and-field athletic scholarship to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he majored in art, Preston said sports has always been in his blood..

“As a child, I would gather all the local kids and organize teams and games against kids in other neighborhoods,” said Preston, who taught at a Montessori school in Oakland before accepting the job at Montclair Elementary in 1989. “They were looking for someone who could team-teach and was musical, artistic and sports-minded. I interviewed for the job and was hired on the spot,” Preston said. The popular sports coach is also a talented musician who plays drums and sings with various Bay Area bands, including Samba Funk, which will perform Thursday in an interactive assembly at Montclair Elementary.

“We also perform during the school’s annual Otter Walk walk-a-thon,” Preston said, “We play everything from dance music to classical and soul.”, Preston is also working on a three-part multimedia comic book series, the first of which is entitled “Welcome to the YOUniverse.” He’s taken his love of illustration and bone tired, ballerina, ballet dancer, oil painting original art not print framed, theatre lover, artword by alex jabore comic books to students at Montclair Elementary, where he started a comic book club earlier this year, teaching drawing, coloring and storytelling, Tony De Wolk is 28 but continues to incorporate the lessons he learned from Preston into his daily life..

“I started at Adventure Time in kindergarten and continued though my entire time at Montclair Elementary,” said De Wolk, adding that a group from his Adventure Time days still meets up every Saturday to play flag football. “André helped me with homework, he mediated fights — and he gave me my due when I broke the rules. His curriculum can’t be found in a textbook, but the results of his teaching can be seen in the thousands of students he taught. I would say André is a bona fide superhero.”.

Lily Malone’s father, Christopher, is a single parent who feels anxious that he has to leave his daughter at school bone tired, ballerina, ballet dancer, oil painting original art not print framed, theatre lover, artword by alex jabore and in after-school care for long hours each day, “My child spends 10 hours on campus each school day, four under André’s care,” Christopher Malone said, “Without André’s involvement in my daughter’s daily extracurricular life, running four seasons of sports programs, my daughter and I would likely be lesser people, and I would be much more stressed over the long hours my daughter spends away from me, André is a blessing.”..

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