‘Sur la rue’ Painting

A story of 2 lovers. I tend to paint side profiles, in this painting it naturally seemed to fall into place, to the point where I could see I could then connect the two side profiles through body language. Therefore, I added an arm, stretched out on the figure. In this, I found I could play with the idea of illusion and metaphors. The arm wrapped around the persons shoulder appears to looks like either theirs or, more evidently their lovers’. In this, you can play around with a story that equates to you…They might not even be lovers but merely strangers passing each other on the street (perhaps imagining what they could be if they knew each other). They could be anything.