Watercolor & Ink Expressionist Painting of Shoes with Flower, "Flora Shoes IV"

"When I was a child my parents gave me a book with the story of Cinderella and it really struck me that all of her accessories were reversed to their original form by midnight except for the glass slippers. This intrigued me and stayed with me because the shoes represented access to an assumed freedom provided by the so-called Prince Charming," says Costa Rican artist Magda Cordoba. She works with watercolor and ink on paper to create a whole series around this theme capturing different kinds of shoes with a multicolored palette, floral motifs and a collage technique where each shoe is individually cut and then placed on the paper. The Expressionist-style painting comes with a cardboard mat and a foamboard base.

Titled Zapatillas Flora 5 in Spanish.