April 29

This is my favorite personal painting I've done...ever. I will never ever let it go. To others, it is simply a painting of a dead, off-white rose sitting on a plain dark gray background. This painting fascinates me like nothing else I've painted ever has. I stare at it every morning as I wake up; it's so comforting. It's like a glimpse of a happy past memory that stretches forward to the present time to give me a small breath of comfort. I'm sorry the picture does the painting no justice at all. I painted it with so much black and gray that my camera gets very confused...