Watercolor

6.75 x 6.5

$45.

Teresa Beyer

 

Poison and Wine

 

"You only know what I want you too.

I know everything you don't want me to.

 

Your mouth is poison 

Your mouth is wine

 

You think your dreams are the same as mine.

 

I don't love you,

but I always will.

 

I wish you would hold me when I turn my back.

 

The less I give the more I get back.

 

Your hands can Heal,

Your hands can Bruise.

 

I don't have a choice but I still choose you.

 

I don't love you,

but I always will.

 

By the Civil Wars

 

 

Is love one kind of feeling that you feel for everything you love?

When I look at my beloved I feel a deep love for him.

When I look at my grandchildren I experience love as well.

Or while walking in nature, my dogs, my old friend Simba.

 

Is love experienced at different levels of intensity or are there different kinds of love? Once love is given can it truly be retracted?

 

This is the second time I have painted this image, and while it's the same mask, it is a different color palette.

 

The first one was painted while I was living in San Antonio, TX walking through what has been the most challenging and desperate time of my life.

 

 

 

Who am I today? W/C $65.                                      Poison and Wine W/C $45.

 

Today I painted this mask again and my life today is a complete 180 from TX with a man that is without a doubt the best thing that has happened to (children and grandchildren are the exceptions).

 

The color palette for each of these seems to express this.

 

I was listening to "The Civil Wars" while painting today and got stuck on "Poison and Wine" which brought me back to Texas because that is when I bought the recording "Barton Hallow" reminding me of that nightmare I barely lived through back in Texas and other Ex's (sorry I couldn't help it).

 

Keeping the Brushes Wet,

Teresa