#198 Red Heels 9/23/19

Just one painting tonight....wanted to try for two, but it just didn't happen.  I'm on a shoe theme.  Red high heels - likely my most despised footwear ever.  For some reason, women in red high heels look ridiculous to me.  So, I painted a pair.  Not a real pair, but a tan pair of heels that I found on Pexels, and I transposed red into it.  I used more of my naples yellow - my new favored background color.  The red of the shoes is a mixture of cadmium red medium, alizarin crimson and white.  After the shoes I painted the underneath background area next, and there was still some red from the shoes on the brush so it turned the naples yellow a bit fleshy.  But I ended up liking that color underneath.  Then for some reason it looked like it needed a 3rd color.  I bought a color wheel two weeks ago, when I dropped off the fundraiser painting at Howard's Art Store, but I couldn't find it to help make the decision on what the other color should be.  It was the color wheel's big moment, the first time it would be used instead of me guessing, and it was MIA.  Drat.  There was still some moist Bob Ross Green left on the palette, amazingly, and I took it as a sign that that was the color that should be used.  It's just a smokey bit of it in the upper right corner.  Fast and loose is the style on this one, just like the type of woman who would choose to wear these shoes!