SELF WITH FLU PORTRAIT STUDIES. Conte, Nu pastel, acrylic on Japanese drawing paper. Not flattering, maybe, but they do capture the mood?

Some further sketches, conte and acrylic on Kraft paper, taken from the Music and Movement collaborative videos.

This dancer expresses a lot of desolation and despair in her gestures...barely recovering from the flu I can really relate..

The dancer uses a lot of eloquent hunching up of the shoulders and her hands to express dismay