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Bro: I use it for everything! It solves all my math problems.

Me: bro, just use a calculator.

Bro: but you can just take a picture of it and send it through the app

Me: or you can type it in to a calculator

Bro: but it knows how to solve it!

Me: bro, please tell me you at least know order of operations.

Bro: what?

Me: like if I gave you an equation with parenthesis, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division- would you know which order to solve it in?

Bro: uhhh... well the app does all that.

Me: they teach you this in school? To just use an app? Why even have a math class?

Bro: well the app is always right.

This is an oil painting I made last year called Hobbyshop

When I was about 9 I would go to a hobbyshop to get lessons in painting warhammer, this painting is loosely based on that period of time

The guy who taught me was an older English man with a moustache, which I thought was an interesting sort of guy to be so in to warhammer

I remember the other guy who ran the shop always pottering about, fiddling with things. I like trying to paint fingers doing delicate little actions like this, although I haven't really figured out how to do it -

here's a much better example by Sorolla. Very nice hands.

The kid in this painting ended up glowering which I didn't really intend, but I like it because I think kids sometimes look a bit moody without meaning to. I was and am like that anyway.