My 2nd Twilight Kiss painting

 My second Twilight Kiss painting was the first one I painted using a pure ultramarine blue background. 


This made is much easier for the glowing, golden bodies of my "Physical Touch love language" intertwined couples to show up against that deep blue background. 


This is also the first painting in my "Twilight Kiss" that has the words fitted around the bodies. "Support" and "Kindness" are in the background while "Passion" is on her left knee.


I love how her smile has crinkling around the eyes.

Additionally, I put a stylized tree around them. However, I felt this made the painting more busy than it should have been. 


Therefore, I only added more background elements (besides the loving words) to the MUCH LARGER paintings in the series.


Now, this painting also has a deeply contrasted couple which I think highlights their joyous emotions.


This painting mostly turned out how I desired. However, I determined to clean up the background to make it easier to understand in the future paintings in the series.


~Rita Jan Gehman, the Artist

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