Red Waltz

Been having a bit of an obsession with red recently. After painting a wall in my apartment burgundy, I had a bunch of leftover paint, so that’s how I began this canvas. It’s a big one, 5 feet long, 4 feet high.

It’s been a few years since I painted Sensuality and I’ve always wanted to create more works in that slimy soft style. That was the original idea with this one but I decided to go with red instead of orange as the base. The female form in Sensuality emerged after an improvisation, but for this one I decided to chalk some in from the start and work around them. At the start the figures were much more loosely defined and distorted, but as the composition started to fill in, I began to have more fun creating better defined female forms so I just went with it. The painting ended up racier than I had originally intended too, not that that’s a bad thing.

I’m not 100% sure that I’m done. I like the monochrome red, but it’s hard not to feel like it’s lacking something. I also cannot for the life of me figure out how to capture the richness of the color on film.