on the easel--Lost Souls

I was painting for 8 hours on a seascape and then I had about ten minutes to get ready for a dinner. I put down my seascape hit a couple of shots of jack daniels and painted this in ten to 15 minutes. I normally dont discuss time (as in how long a piece takes me) as a rule but often art is about a moment and the greatest of works have been killed by over- laboring them. I am not sure why I painted this or how it came out of me but I know that is about the idea of the souls who are lost in eternity, in purgatory. The idea of forever is too much for my brain and the idea of being in a kind of hell forever is even worse. This is oil on canvas 18 x 24