Sleeping With Puppies

Description

A dramatic pose of one of my ladies sleeping with her puppies besides her, she has fallen out of bed or maybe didn’t get into it in the first place, the little brown puppy is looking at her wondering what’s going on, the little black puppy is standing guard, he’s her protector or will be when he grows up. She looks like she is having a troubled sleep which is why she fell out of the bed. For me nudes are interesting to paint, I’ve had people say my Ladies are grotesque, fat, ugly, I think they are profoundly beautiful. My ladies tell a story, but you’ll never know what it is, you can guess and maybe you’re right, but you’ll never know. I want my ladies to have something of the night about them, be exquisite, strong, in control, of indeterminate origin and voluptuous. I want the tone beautifully considered, profoundly sympathetic, and deeply respectful and admiring of the female form portrayed in an atmosphere of wonder, intrigue in all its humble yet life-affirming glory. My ladies have always been with me, my earliest drawings were nudes, when I had my first gallery on Samui, I used to have lots of Thais walking by furtively peeping into my shop with lots of kids sneaking a look, all because of my nudes, Thais don’t normally do nudes.