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"The Shoe" watercolor and graphite approx. size 32 inches x 24 inches This painting is available as a poster. Click Here. This painting all started when I was walking around in a second hand store and I chanced to see a pair of sequined shoes placed carelessly on a shelf with some books. I picked them up, time stood still for me as I became lost in the details of the  golden shoes. They seemed especially beautiful because they obviously had been worn. Right away I knew I would do a Portrait of a Shoe. The shoe seemed to contain as much information and life force as any face I'd ever seen.

I thought the shoe should be floating on a bed of flowers. So, each time I received flowers, on such occasions as my birthday or Valentine's Day,  I would paint these flowers into the piece.

As I spent weeks working on just the shoe itself, I could hardly believe what I was seeing; the extent of the detail was truly awesome. There is the history of the shoe in regards to who wore it, but there is equal history in regards to those who made it. I couldn't help thinking about the many people whose lives had been involved in these shoes in some way or another.

I couldn't imagine this painting without insects, as they are natural companions to flowers and just as breathtaking in their delicacy.

This painting is available as a poster.    Click Here.   You are now in Gallery 3 Galleries Paintings 1  Windows and Doors  2  "The Shoe" 3  Commissions  4  "Red Roses" and "The Fan" 5     Posters    6  Paintings 7 Paintings 8  Stone Lithos and Monoprints 9  Art Objects 10 Illustrations "Black Mane"11 The Golden Boy Gallery  12 Paintings on Consignment 14