Dorian was inspired by the sound of the shower running in the master bathroom. It was Thursday night. His wife was obviously getting ready for another class at the art school! She had become busier in recent months. She usually had two classes a week now, but sometimes three or even more assignments if one of the artists asked her to model privately on the weekend. When the bill for the portrait came due, she had belatedly bartered with the artist rather than ask Dorian for the money. The limited gig to pay off her debt had evolved, becoming more than just a housewife and mother's part time job.
Dorian took his key ring from his pocket as he approached the special display case that he had mounted on the back side of his closet door. Doreen had only reluctantly allowed their children to see the portrait when she nervously presented it to him on his fortieth birthday. However; she had been fearful that their two eldest, adolescent children's friends might show the portrait to their friends. Doreen had not objected to strenuously when Dorian proudly displayed her portrait to a few of his friends. However; she still wasn't enamored with the possibility of teenaged boys actually masturbating to her portrait.
In recent months, Dorian's fingers had become adept at identifying the distinctive shape of the key by touch alone. He slipped the key into the lock of the four foot tall by three foot wide by half a foot deep cabinet. He had lovingly built the cabinet out of genuine oak, not cheap plywood. His method of mounting the portrait cabinet on the back of the door that was narrower than the cabinet had been ingenious. He was thinking of patenting it. He slowly swung the cabinet door open to reveal the portrait.
The oil painting was reminiscent of the portrait that was so crucial to the plot of the movie Titanic. The divan that Doreen was reclining upon was certainly very similar. However; the perspective was subtly different and the pose was a dramatic contrast. The artist had been at the foot of the divan. From that perspective he had been able to emphasize the fact that rather than keeping her thighs pressed demurely together to Reveal only a hint of her pubic hair, Doreen was posing with her thighs parted provocatively to flaunt her sex.
The artist had not been content to paint a simplistic, dark triangle that would only begrudgingly acknowledge Doreen's pubic mound. Somehow with just a few brushstrokes, he had captured not just the curly, dark whirls of her pubic hair, he had captured the essence of her prominent labia which seemed to be swollen and distended with lust. The painting even alluded to the possibility that her vagina was dilated as if to proudly convey an aurora of fertile, fecund, femininity and sultry, seductive sexuality. Doreen's portrait seemed to be inviting an admirer's penis to enter her. Just looking at the portrait evoked Dorian's vivid memories of her aroma and flavor as well as the exquisite sensation of actually being inside her.
The artist had portrayed Doreen as she truly was. He had made no effort to conceal the fact that she was almost two decades older than Kate Winslet had been when she starred in that movie. The artist had candidly emphasized the fact that Doreen was more voluptuous that Kate Winslet. However; Doreen's wider, maternal hips compensated for her thicker waist, giving her a classic, hourglass figure. Doreen's breasts were also much larger than the younger Hollywood starlet's. She had not yet weaned their toddler when she posed for the portrait. Her swollen nipples surrounded by enormous, dark brown aureoles competed with her sex for the attention of her admirers. The divan supported her in an almost upright position so as to emphasize the fact that her heavy breasts sagged naturally under their own weight because they were full and firm with mother's milk.
Dorian retrieved the sketchpad from its special compartment on the inside of the cabinet door. The sketchpad chronicled the gradual evolution of the sensibilities of a respectable, church going, housewife and mother. Doreen had stubbornly insisted on keeping her mundane, cotton bra and panty on for the first dozen sketches. Then she had somehow found the courage to pose with her panty slid seductively down her thighs almost to her knees to fully reveal her pubic mound. The artist had captured her facial expression perfectly. Her shame had been alloyed with intense arousal.
Doreen had posed for a dozen more, increasingly provocative sketches that focused unabashedly on her proudly displayed sex before she had found the courage to remove her bra. After half a dozen sketches of her posing with her arms positioned to coyly obscure her breasts, she had finally gained the confidence to fully flaunt her womanly charms. A half dozen more sketches of her reclining fully nude on the divan chronicled her rehearsals for the final oil painting.
Perhaps the most provocative of the preliminary sketches was the most innocent. That sketch portrayed Doreen as she was nursing their then infant daughter. She'd reclined with the baby concealing only the breast that it was suckling from. Her thighs were more innocently parted, as if she was only casually revealing her sex. The sketch inspired and seemed to invite an admirer to give her another baby. Dorian knew from experience that while nursing an infant delayed the resumption of a woman's fertility, their infant daughter suckling from Doreen's breast attested to the reality that it was a less than perfectly reliable form of contraception. Admiring the sketch evoked Dorian's memories of the prolonged, painful recovery from his recent vasectomy. Unfortunately; Doreen had been certain that the baby wouldn't have the appetite or the patience to pose for an oil painting.
Doreen had belatedly enlightened Dorian only after she had presented the portrait to him. She had spent an entire day posing for the sketches, gradually conquering her inhibitions. She had nervously confessed that she had become perpetually aroused as she spent many hours during the following week posing for the oil painting. The artists had made more sketches of Doreen whenever she had to take a break to nurse her infant.
Dorian had been astonished by the revelations that explained why his wife had been almost insatiable during the week before his birthday. They had been almost like newlyweds in the following weeks, with her surging libido struggling in vane with his waning virility. He had eagerly exploited the opportunity to make love to his wife without reservation or restraint until the lingering complications from his vasectomy asserted themselves again. They had been compelled to abstain for several weeks while he recovered.
Dorian's admiration of the portrait was interrupted when Doreen entered from the bathroom. She was fully nude, revealing a physique that had not yet fully recovered from her most recent pregnancy or even previous pregnancies, and probably never would. However; she had become utterly desirable to him. She was carrying a towel, a mirror, a comb, and two pairs of scissors. She blushed only a bit then smiled as she said, "the instructor asked me to be more overtly provocative tonight."