#221 Black Heels 10/10/19

Another pair of heels. Full disclosure, I cannot wear heels.  They just kill my feet.  And when I see "professional women" (full disclosure, yes I saw the double meaning there and elected to keep it) I marvel at their ability to walk and not wince or stumble or break an ankle.  They are almost like specialty athletes in my eyes, like one might view a pole vaulter.  Perhaps one day we'll view high heels like we do corsets now.....women willing to suffer silently for fashion.  Regardless, I like how my black heels turned out.  Yes, the photo I worked from were red heels, but I had already done red heels, so I changed them to black, my artistic license.  I elected to put purple down on the palette before I even started, knowing that I wanted the "realism" of the black color to happen with purple.  I used to make glass beads, and when you strung out black glass thinly over a white glass surface it would appear purple.  Black glass is actually really dark purple.  So that is likely why I started with the purple plan.  I ended up sticking with the purple plan too!  I'm not sure if I'm going to be the only eyes that see the shoes as black though....the rest of the world may just see these as purple shoes.