Love Is...

There are five paintings (so far) in this series, that looks at love in a playful way.
I have purposefully used a skull in this series to highlight that humans, despite what prejudices we may consciously or unconsciously hold, are all the same underneath, no matter who we are. Our religion, the colour of our skin, where we come from, the language we speak, our accents even; our ability or disability, none of that matters, we are all exactly the same underneath. Whether we love someone, or if we just love ourselves that is what comes first, that is all that matters.
I don't use templates to paint the skulls in my paintings, each one is individually drawn from a single reference and is therefore unique. The reference photo I used for these paintings comes from my own collection, I used to work in archaeology and I worked a lot with human remains and personally processed this skelly.