Triptych

"Blush" had brightened the figure's cheeks, and a soft pink had added a lustrous, wet look to the pouting lips. "Foundation makeup" had smoothed away the few wrinkles that would otherwise have appeared. Russ had painted the face as expertly as a Hollywood makeup artist paints the beautiful countenances of actresses and models, using hues and tints to suggest, accentuate, mute, shade, and redirect the eye, creating a mask of beauty to overlay the Transsexual figure's own natural charms. He'd applied the same superb talent in delineating her breasts, highlighting their fullness, their roundness, their firm-soft, silky texture. Their natural creams, pinks, and golden hues, as well as a variety of muted shades and tints unperceived by many who had not the artist's eye, were enhanced and heightened by Russ' artistic genius. The nipples were tinted such a soft pink that they resembled the flesh of delicate roses rather than a woman's skin.

Were one to touch the painted surface-not that one would think of actually doing so, any more than he or she might stroke the canvas of a Rubens or a Rembrandt-he or she would expect to feel the swelling of the puffy areolas and, in fact, so convincing was its depiction, that the admirer might suppose that, in fact, he or she actually had felt the distension of the silky smooth halos of flesh. The abdomen was rendered as faithfully, so that one might almost feel the sleek flesh, the hollow of the concave belly, and the slight rise before the downy pubic hair. The legs were long, sleek, and shapely.

The only incongruities of the beautiful figure's form were all the more startling because of her otherwise absolute femininity. After the gorgeous woman's face, the perfect breasts, the narrow waist, and the downy pubic hair, the cock and balls were shockingly out of place. Until the viewer's eye had traveled to the subject's groin, never would he or she have supposed the creature portrayed in such exquisite glory to have been anything but what she seemed-a woman of surpassing loveliness.