Happy Valentine's Day XOXO

For Today: 

"Conversation Hearts", Janelle Jensen Fritz, 2013

I wanted to try my own at the iconic sweet & sticky, poetry & prosy Valentine favorite, the conversation heart. 
Special props to my friend Aimee for letting me snag a handful of hers for my still-life, so I didn't have to deal with finding sucked on conversation hearts from the mouth of my 2 year old for weeks on end.
I will divide this work up into a group of 3 paintings. The top two split evenly and then the bottom two as a combination. 

Top Left Conversation Heart prose: "Sex Machine. crushing." & "pretty, plain-old fresh, flirty pink flush." Culminating together with "Rev the engine". 

Top Right Conversation Heart prose: "darling, candy-coated, Goddess", "-and guilt-free man candy." 

Bottom Combination Conversation Hearts prose: "cute brute boy-meets-girl", and "Hott, Sexy Lips Pucker". Culminating together with "Happily Even After, For Like Ever". 

For Me: 

 "If you want my body and you think I'm sexy
Come on honey tell me so
If you really need me just reach out and touch me
Come on sugar let me know" ---Rod Stewart, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" 

My midwest blue collar upbringing still gets the hots for Rod Stewart from time to time. I'm well aware of the shame this should conduce. Yet, Pandora station? Set. I had to grin at what this fellow fan in the modern day expressed: 

" Back in the day it was a bit edgy. But compared to today’s music it might as well be a Gregorian Chant."---Fellow Rod Stewart Fan 
 
For You & I: 

"The Facts of Life":

"Just as an artist becomes intimate with the ingredients in his paints and learns how they'll interact with his canvas, you must become a connoisseur of your body's capabilities for sexual pleasure with your partner. Even though you've lived for decades in your body, I"m betting there are things you still don't know about its capability for heightened sexual experience and even ecstasy. " -Roz Van Meter

CYA: https://www.facebook.com/coachroz 
(She kind of seems like the personality that Barbara Streisand plays in her character in the movie Meet the Fockers. But she's local, a Dallas gal, but we've never crossed paths.)

What an incredible concept. That all of us can only move up the ladder in this realm. Honestly, who wouldn't want to improve on sex, & ecstasy, regardless of their skill level!?? 
"No thank you sir, I won't have another.... I appreciate the offer for notching up the pleasure spectrum, but I think I'll just hunker down where I'm at. I can't imagine consenting to increasing the intensity level."
 
Are you kidding me? I think not. As if that has been said by anyone, anywhere...where it applies to consensual, actual love-making, joint climaxing endeavors. 

So cheers to what we don't know in this realm, when it applies to sex within the appropriate parameters. I wish us all a few notches forward towards "pleasure town". 

Veronica Corningstone: Take me to Pleasure Town!
Ron Burgundy: Oh, we're going there!

(Quotation from the movie "Anchorman" with Christina Applegate & Will Ferrell )


For your little ones:

This is a classic children's song. Love Grows One by One. This version cracks us up because it sounds like some breeding hybrid of crack-baby Chipmunks and the speed was accelerated so it only lasts 1:25 min. It is cute & catchy.