Original artwork description:

Expressionist oil painting mainly painted with palette knife, on a rollered orange red background.

This is the latest in the "Mask" series of oil paintings.

We all wear masks in our daily lives to protect our vulnerabilities, but if if you look closely enough these vulnerabilities are always seeping out, the mask is always, sometimes imperceptibly, slipping to reveal more than we would like.
The mask in this case is a granite hard face brute strength and violence, but a mask nonetheless. Who knows what led to such a tough veneer, and all the years that went into shining it.

Materials used:

oil painting on linen canvas

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