"What Goddesses Share" 18" x 16" chalk pastel & colored pencil on 160lb,. 40% cotton, green pastel paper

"As She Comes To Me In My Dreams" 26" x 20" chalk pastel on 160lb, 40% cotton, black pastel paper

"Through the Door, Into the Blue" Colored pencil & chalk pastel, on 18" x 24" 70lb, smooth sketch paper

"What do you wanna do?" Colored pencil on 18" x 24" 70lb smooth sketch paper

"We shot seven rolls of film.  Do you feel like shooting some more"

"I don't know.   What do you want to do?"

"Seven is a lot.  We've been shooting for four hours.  But if you want to..."

"What do you want to do?"

"I think we've shot enough.  You must be...."

"What do you want to do?"

"Oh."

 WOULD NYMPHS
...or "How I Spent My Summer Vacation Part 2

The summer of 2011, I spent rendering Goddesses who would exist if they were released from the captivity of my thoughts. to be captured by colored pencils and chalk pastels

"The Goddess and the Fairy" 20" x 26" chalk pastel & colored pencil on 160lb, 40% cotton, green pastel paper

"On the Pond of Reflection" Colored pencil on 24" x 18", 70lb smooth sketch paper

"Empowerment of Surrender" Colored pencil on 24" x 18" 70lb, smooth sketch paper

All images (c) Conrad Lawrence

The images above deal with the perceptions of sexuality.  Is the woman looking away from the naked man out of loathe, boredom, surrender or fear?  Is that a look of amusement or circumspect on her face? 

Is the man leaving the girl with the knife or the smile and what is the role of each woman in the scene?

And...what about the horse?