A lovely new painting for you all to feast your eyeballs on.
I call this one “The time she wore red.”
When I originally started on this painting I had a completely different visual in mind than what I ended up with.
It wasn’t that the painting took me off in different directions as sometimes happens with me, but more about timing and moods that did it.
There was a big gap between me starting this and finishing it.
When I originally sketched everything out I had the idea of a woman in her middle years who was married and well taken care of by her husband. I had the idea of an older chap who comes along and makes her pulse beat fast. I thought about the moment of decision. I thought about the gears turning in her mind and heart.
I thought of the ‘tic tic tic’ of the clock.
I imagined she had never thought she would dare and now she was going to… maybe.
That was my sketch.
I went with that and got all my base painting done. It was looking good and I was into it.
Then I got side tracked on some other projects. I also got pulled in with some stuff I had deadlines on.
I got overloaded with tattoo clients… Time ticked by and this painting just sat there waiting for me.
While time ticked by things happened. Personal dealings with people. One from my past, and one from my present made me think of younger feelings than those of a middle aged, well kept society wife. The heart beats fast at certain moments in life, but age and experiences make the causes and emotions much different at those times.
Another weird thing that affected this painting is that the old movie theater in my home town announced it was closing for good.
This was the theater I grew up with as a kid. The theater I saw all my favorite movies in. It was the theater I went to with my friends. Sometimes those friends were girls. First in innocence we went. Later kisses would be traded. It still held a youthful innocence as we explored adult ideas.
There are a couple girls I remember from those days of innocence with more fondness than many who later in life (with a lack of innocence involved) rocked my world a hundred times over. Moments… they are forever.
Is all innocence lost after our childhoods fade away? No.
We maintain much innocence through our early adulthood. We trade it off, sell it, and oftentimes have it stolen from us as years go by.
Is the middle aged, well kept wife less innocent than the newlywed who finds herself enamored with a strangers smile? I think not.
So innocence, youthfulness, decisions, an old theater, long conversations with a friend twenty years younger than I…. changed my thought process.
I decided to go for an entirely different look.
I decided to paint a different version of a similar story.
I’m glad I did.
One thing I did keep from the very beginning is the working title.
This moment, this representation of so much… It is still the time she wore red.
You can get prints of this painting HERE.
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