Henry is the type of dad who falls asleep looking like he's reading. Who wouldn't tho when the book is about sediments.

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Anyway, surprise surprise another artwork of them sleeping. I have a problem haha.

This one is a still life featuring a sku, which is a traditional artistic subject, often featuring symbols, to represent the idea that life is fleeting and death comes for all. Good times.

Extinguished candles are a supporting symbol, and flowers/coins are also used, I assume to make the same point about money and beauty. Now I need a skull. I'm considering painting the arrangement by low light/ candlelight, which is an English landscape painter's technique I learned about on fake or fortune, the bbc show. (I could go on about this show and the fact that they completely buy into the value of paintings by artist, and how they don't address criticisms of this assigning of value being nonsensical and sometimes considered a form of money laundering, but I digress)