I just finished this drawing last night, been working on it for a few weeks.
It’s multi-dimensional. If you get caught up in the woman you might miss the whole point of the art.
Maybe it will help if you turn it upside-down. Can you see more clearly now?
In college, one of my art instructors would sometimes have students practice turning the subject of their painting upside down. To see it without any preconceived ideas. No assumptions.
It’s a trick of the brain really. Novelty helps you see the actual detail in front of you instead of being blinded by assumptions.
I often get comments about my art being very sexual. It’s a distraction, and intentional.
A good friend of mine admonishes me regularly, telling me “put those away” while swatting at my chest. “It’s on purpose,” I tell her, but she doesn’t yet understand.
I’ve learned in life that dressing modest or revealing doesn’t matter much in the long-term of how others treat me. But my own revealing clothing helps reveal the other persons’ character very quickly.
And that’s important to me.
My art seems to imitate life, and that same premise has found its way into my drawings. The nudity or sexuality in them is only a distraction. What’s the piece really trying to say?
And if you get stuck at the sexual content its revealing more about your character than my own as an artist.
In person, if someone approaches me and can do nothing except circle around sexuality it tells me I don’t need to waste any attention on them. It saves me so much time figuring out what I’ll eventually learn about them – that they objectify.
And if a person can see past that and treat me like a whole human being I know they are a gem I want in my life.
I once wrote,
Some men rather make a good woman their whore, than make a whore their good woman.
Don’t miss the forest for the trees, what I’m creating is quite deep. ❤️
P.S. Yes, that is Dora acting as sleepy-time art easel.
