Bleeding Hearts

I wanted to paint a V Day painting in honour of how much I hate the holiday. Im still in my flower painting mode I guess so I thought bleeding hearts would be perfect plus the story that goes with them fit my mood. AND I got to paint over a picture that I was sick of looking at

The story of the bleeding heart.

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess. Young men from far and near came to pay her court. But the princess was very vain and would have nothing to do with any of them. A young prince from a neighboring country fell deeply in love with her. She ignored him like the others though he tried to win her heart. One day the prince found a pair of pretty pink rabbits at the market and sent them to the princess thinking “this will surely melt her heart” but the princess went right on ignoring him. Then he tried again and presented her with beautiful dangly earrings. Still the princess would have nothing to do with him. The young prince was so heart broken that he took his dagger and drove it straight into his heart. As soon as the prince was dead the princess realized that she really had loved him. And she said “As long as I live, my heart shall bleed for my prince” as she wept.

I hope you like it.