This piece, of course, comes from the Billy Joel song, "And So It Goes." It is the song to which Shane and Oliver dance in that unforgettable scene from The Masterpiece (be still my heart!) and we also hear it again in the chapel scene from Lost Without You. I'm not going to go into too much depth here (I have a future post planned for this analysis), but this song is the perfect choice for #ShOliver in so many ways. And also, it's just so beautiful! I remember once I learned

The next painting in my series was "The First Rose of Summer." I don't have any overly deep personal insights on why I chose this phrase to paint. I think I mostly loved the symbolic nature the "rose conversations" held for Shane and Oliver. The evolution of the rose bush became a parallel to the evolution of Shane and Oliver's relationship. We first see the mention of the rose in The Impossible Dream. Shane reveals to Oliver that her mother would send her a clipping from the