Another lock down painting. This is titled capitalism, the photograph doesn't show the surface quality of the paint properly, paintings have an aesthetic that is unique to the medium. These are acrylics pretty fun and rewarding to paint with, oils I found rather slow and sleeping in the same room as I paint the fumes became unbearable I gave up painting in them years ago soon after I stopped working as a professional screenprinter. I am a collector and a procrastinator, having art supplies for years and not using them always an excuse not to use them; this lockdown has made me enter back into the conversation, that is art. I guess I have always been a part of it but with out contributing paintings I feel irrelevant. So skulls and darkness were my last paintings 6 years ago, they had a horrific realism, these new paintings are almost pop art, but I have been trying to imbue meaning to covey and communicate something above the mere beauty of the subject and paint.The aesthetic
