My first painting of 2012 is a bit of a diversion from series past. I have a muse that inspires me to paint and I must follow the whims in my heart.
This latest watercolor was censored from Facebook already…although I’m not sure why. If it offends you…don’t look. 
(I reposted!)
Personally I think it is a rather conservative study of a beautiful female form, but some people are appalled that a woman isn’t covered from head to toe. Please just delete me from your friend’s list if you can’t take it. Then rush right out to a museum and culture yourself.
The human body is a masterpiece, in any form, in any condition. We’re all stuck with one for a very short time, like it or not. Embrace it, love it, appreciate the complexities and celebrate the nuances! The human form is a work of art.
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Hi, I want to congratulate you on your work, very bright, I love the color tones achieves superb, very good work, greetings.
Belíssima a tua obra de arte! estou encantada com tanta perfeição e sutileza em toda a composição. Parabéns, Paul! Abraços.
Paul
I just had to share with you a blog post I am writing regarding this beautiful painting.
It is a BLOG A DAY CHALLENGE by SEE JANE WRITE!, a group in Birmingham.
The day’s challenge is
Friday, Nov. 2 — Defense! No, I’m not talking about football. Write a post defending something or someone that usually gets a bad rap. This could be a celebrity, a book, your favorite food, a region of the country, etc. The possibilities are endless. To narrow your choices, pick something that’s somehow related to your blogging niche.
Defending artist Paul Jackson’s nude painting removed from Facebook~
It amazes me how different Americans are from Europeans when it comes to the naked body. All along the streets when my sweet husband surprised me for my fortieth birthday and whisked me to Paris were billboards and posters promoting a beautiful exhibit by a photographer who made the body through his creative photographic vision resemble flowers, a river, mountains. The exhibit was tastefully provocative, creative, magical. The posters quite interesting, and most definitely a stretch for American standards.
Insert photo from my old photo stack (these were with an old film camera, had to dig)
In America we make such things taboo and in doing so magnify the dirty feel instead of embracing the sheer beauty. The masters of Europe captured beauty in the natural body, making women of any size and shape feel good about the natural tendency for the body to be appreciated for what it does. The significance of the breasts for nurturing a newborn in Europe was so often captured in magnificent light with the subjects being revealed as Goddesses of life.
Because our children are not exposed to the pure beauty of the woman’s body, they find at puberty this snickering, immature relationship with the very thing that brought them into existence.
Even facebook bans nude paintings and drawings on sites. And while I am surely against the posting of a bleach blonde revealing breasts that are guaranteed to show no functional value for bearing children, I appreciate the tastefully painted rendition of a woman with light cast on her body as she is captured by the creator of a painting.
http://www.pauljackson.com/2012/01/muse-27×56-watercolor-by-paul-jackson/
Here is a link to his facebook and blog posts about the painting.
Be WARE! Tasteful nudity alert!