Morning After

This painting is a revisit of a sketch I made many years ago. At the time, I was doing a lot of very realistic zombies for my day job, really playing up the fleshy, grotesque side- with all the research that went into that. This piece was something of a reaction against what had started to feel like nihilistic work. I wanted to take the same subject and find a more beautiful, poetic side, and I landed on a theme of weariness and rest.