Rio Olympics: Generating Power

Simone Biles (USA) is brilliant on the floor excerise, okay, she is brilliant in gymnastics all together.  Part of her dominance on the floor is her powerful tumbling runs.  That power comes from the runs she takes into the flips and jumps.  Here she is winding up for her final tumbling run that wins her the fourth Gold Medal and fifth medal of these Games.  Her teammate, Aly Raison, won the Silver Medal, with the Brit taking the Bronze.  It is so unusual to see no Russians, Japanese or Chinese women on the podium.  It is feeling like the power of gymnastics is swinging to the eastern hemisphere.

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Rio Olympics: For the Judges

Erika Fasana (Italy) took her final pose as the Italian opera music faded in the hall.  Fasana had just completed her floor exercise routine and held this pose as the judges looked on as though they were disgruntled.  I am not sure why they seemed like they had sour milk under their noses, but their scores reflected their apparent mood.  I thought that Fasana moved with grace, certainly one of the best dancers of the competition.  But then the tumbling is where the points are.

This is a small watercolors and ink painting measuring just 4"x6" and was created using Yarka St. Petersburg watercolors and Steve Quiller brushes from www.richesonart.com.  This painting and all of my Olympics artwork will be available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  To purchase this particular painting just follow the direct link at the end of this post.  Remember this is an original work of art, so once it has been sold, it is gone.  Don't delay buy it now!

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Rio Olympics: And Now, the Dismount

Laurie Hernandez (USA) had a near flawless routine.  As she  collected herself, toe pointed for her dismount, I am sure she was hoping for a perfect landing.  It nearly was, just the smallest of steps backward.  Her routine was good enough to land her in second for the Silver Medal.  Her teammate and new Olympic star, Simone Biles, had a rather major mistake thus putting her into third for the Bronze.  She still has medal in every event she has competed in, the other three medals being Gold.

This is a small watercolors and ink painting measuring just 4"x6" and was created using Yarka St. Petersburg watercolors and Steve Quiller brushes from www.richesonart.com.  This painting and all of my Olympics artwork will be available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  To purchase this particular painting just follow the direct link at the end of this post.  Remember this is an original work of art, so once it has been sold, it is gone.  Don't delay buy it now!

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Rio Olympics: Balanced Grace

From her unique entry to the beam all of the way through to the "unorthodox" dismount, Sanne Wevers (Netherlands) showed incredible grace and power.  Her multi-directional spins were a thing of beauty.  I have capture her mid way through a triple spin atop the four inch wide balance beam.  She won the first medal for Netherlands in this event since 1928 and this one was Gold!

This is a small watercolors and ink painting measuring just 4"x6" and was created using Yarka St. Petersburg watercolors and Steve Quiller brushes from www.richesonart.com.  This painting and all of my Olympics artwork will be available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  To purchase this particular painting just follow the direct link at the end of this post.  Remember this is an original work of art, so once it has been sold, it is gone.  Don't delay buy it now!

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