Gemini

I painted this like three years ago, lol, and I don't know if I ever submitted it here, but I don't think so. It was a speed painting warmup exercise in my advanced painting studio. I was allowed only 20 minutes to paint it. Hooray for oil glazes! Lol.

I realized it perfectly suits a personification of my astrological sign, Gemini: Dualistic, conflicted, always in motion (like wind, appropriate as it is an air sign), childlike (full of energy and curiosity), empathetic, ponderous, thirsty for change. The palette used involves various shades of the complements red and green (another reference to dualism and the union of conflicted opposites). I recall posing a nude in two positions and superimposing the two poses, which can be a reference to the astrological Twins.

Hah. Interesting. And I didn't do any of that consciously. See? All art has meaning, even when we don't realize it at the time.