Now I finally can share my DOTWE contest baby - mime Dominic and thank @JoyW for that inspiration! I fell in love with your mime as soon as I saw it and wanted to paint mine immediately.
His new Mama (sculptor and artist Ashten Bryant) named him Marcel and that is such a perfect name for him!
I researched miming before I painted him and this is what Wikipedia said “Mime has been performed on stage, with Marcel Marceau and his character “Bip” being the most famous.”
While miming started in Greece and Rome, French actors really adopted it and developed it. And of course my favorite mime-art adopter of all times is Charlie Chaplin. He wasn’t dressed as a traditional French mime, but he adopted his own style for silent movies of that era. I tried to make Marcel’s costume as close as possible to the traditional French mimes. So that is an explanation to his French teem.
I am so grateful for all that recognition to the show attendees and judges!
I think that mime was one of Joys first reborns, she nailed it, and I believe she sold it quickly. I can see why you were inspired. How cool to win an award!!!
So happy for you!
