Self-portrait progress II and new Meat painting

I don't know if the meat painting is quite finished yet, but it's close.

Ken in Repose Prog 3

New Progress Shots

Ken in Repose:




Self-port:

MEAT

So here's something a little different than what I normally paint. Lately I've been struggling to find inspiration and was getting really freaking frustrated until I got a job as a meat clerk at a local supermarket. After about a week working there, I found myself suddenly inspired by the colors and textures that I saw in the meat and became eager to make a meat painting. I wasn't so much trying to make a still-life, but instead wanted to create forms that suggest meat, throw paint thickly onto a surface and make something tactile and really interesting to look at. Here's the first of these paintings and I have a couple more on the way: