Lesson Notes

Triple Swing
Keep a strong connection. Upper arm muscles should not be moving. Practice basic step and Sweetheart with palm to palm connection to be reminded how connection needs to feel.

Hammer Lock & Sweetheart in Triple Swing
Two turns. First is a tuck turn. On second turn, lead from the core. This gives most control. John’s hand at waist needs to give a good tug lead for this turn, helps me do fast turn on first triple.

Rumba
Hold slows longer. No. Longer! Don’t brush feet.

Banquera in Rumba
Cross-body with S-Q-Q.
Slow is spiral turn. (Fwd on R, L stays on floor and twists around.)
Then unwind and close on Q-Q.
Walk S-Q-Q.
S with fast turn in and slink fwd on Q-Q.

50th Anniversary Present

30x40", Acrylic

This Fall is my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. I decided to paint a portrait for them of John & I with my sister and her daughters.
Do you know how hard it is to get good reference photos with a camera on timer and 2 of the 5 people not liking to get their photo taken? And then everyone looked their best in a different photo. So I had to merge together several photos. Despite that and the tight time schedule for this painting, I'm very pleased with how it turned out.