Tar Lake
Rudimentary bodies. Inspired by images of psychological and physical discomfort appearing at the edge of conscious. Twitches, spasms, anxieties as parasites inhabiting the nervous system, all those things leeching energy from your legs and hands, knotting your lungs and stomach. Taking up the space of your mental body, but not the mental body itself.
Sketchbook thumnail. Here the creature was sitting on something vaguely looking like a canister. That's where the "tar" part of the title originated.
Sketchbook thumbnail. Often I use a sketch for a single area of detail I find interesting, while everything else gets either replaced or obliderated in the painting process.
This shape is quite common in my work, something between a pigeon chest, a musical instrument and an enema.