I am changing the title of this painting from “A Veteran’s Life” to “One Veteran’s Life” and, probably, this is going to be a series. So it’s gonna be “One Veteran’s Life No. 1” The reason is that I don’t mean for this to be mistaken as what I believe all veterans’ lives are like.

I’m gonna work on the baby a bit more. I want it to be small, but it might be too small right now for me to paint the pose easily. After the paint dries, then I can play around some more. I should probably just do a charcoal version to get it right. Maybe I will. Maybe I will just keep wasting paint.

The flak helmet still needs work, and I think I need to get some more anger lines on the soldier’s face. But each time I walk away it feels like progress.