four paintings, compiled from the gallery of illustrations

01 clowns03
02 clowns04
03 clowns05
04 clowns02

01
Two clowns dance upbeat nose to nose on a blue dance floor in the headlights.

02
At the top of a stack of books, a clown quotes the poetry from a book while a second clown absolutely wants to have the fourth book in the stack. She tries to pull it from the pile, which makes the reader clown unbalanced.

03
Four clowns take to the scene and look up into the cone of light from a spotlight. The fifth clown sits on top of the spotlight and looks down.

04
Two clowns dance exhilarated cheek against cheek on a red dance floor in the headlights.