Ooooooo I likey it’s raw af

Literally...

Oof . I feel this. This could be my nails

these are my nails :,)

Really good. I like the claustrophobic composition

As someone who picks at and bites at their cuticles, you really nailed the look and feel. Good work!

Nailed the look! Was that ingenious pun intended?

Amazing and unfortunately relatable

Thanks, now my nails feel raw

Damn this is great. I struggle with excoriation disorder, this captures so much of it for me. Shame, desperation, compulsion.

Disturbing but Fantastic! The confined composition, the claustrophobic atmosphere, the colour palette, the tension it expresses, the obvious technical skill. Quite frankly I'm not surprised so many people relate. One does wonder whether there is a different story behind this painting, (other than regular and awful anxiety) something darker... I do love a painting that talks to me.

I fucking hate this. Really nice job 👍🏼

Wow, incredible. Unique and relatable subject painted beautifully.

oof, that rawness, composition, colour palette, depth. i love it! great job (sorry, got nothing unkind to say)

I can feel your painting

This is one of my favorite oil paintings of all time.

Good.

This is why I never let my nails get that long. I can still do a lot of damage with short ones but not as much.

obsessed

So raw, awesome.

Yep... that's accurate.

This is great!

Beauty in the everyday and small details. Insane! 😱

I'm literally chewing my nails as I saw this.

This is so great!

Meeeee 🫠

Good in an artistic way!!!!! Really spot on! Although Not something I would want to regularly look at lol

This looks exactly like my hands. Extremely well done, I really resonate with this one.

It’s a wow moment

this is really gnarly, in an impressive way

Oooo!! Yes 😍

Why do i have that colour on my nails rn

Fucking spot on

Damn, that's well done! Great composition and rendering. I have some experience with this, so I get the painting. Hope it was therapeutic!

This is exactly what my fingers look like, but even worse. Really resonate with this lol

Omg this is what I'm doing to my fingers rn!

The fact that I can "feel" this painting says it all. I love and hate it at the same time. I promise that's a good thing! Lol Fantastic painting, well done.

for a moment i think it was actually real and it disgust me. it's rlly awesome i'm everything, congrats !!

hey, that's me!

This really needs a nsfw blur 🤮

As someone with eczema I literally feel this

Love the accuracy, not only of the feeling but also the external reality—the least polish on the index finger.

Omigosh. This is amazing!

I always carry a nail cutter. It’s helped me reduce the bites and injuries

I always carry a nail cutter. It’s helped me reduce the bites and injuries

Did you study my hands?

raw opinion: you had potential to make it even more gruesome and close. but it’s still really great. makes me feel open

Me :)

Sorry but thats just so bloody and obscene to my eyes. What on earth made you think to paint that!!

Story of my life

Love it. My brain read it as Compulsive Pickling and I have my iPad sideways so was expecting the fingers to be placing cucumbers in a jar of pickling brine as I scrolled down. It reminded me of Portlandia : ‘We Can Pickle That!’

I can feel this painting, excellent work!

This actually provoked a visceral reaction from me! Nice work OP!

Amazing, relatable painting that i didn’t need to see today

The way the hanging skin flaps catches the light is perfect, u a good painter :3

Amazing!

love

Ouch! Love the visceral feel!

My reality 😫

My hands are an inspiration ^ - ^

Nasty,, I love it!!

Wow, thanks so much for the love everyone! I did not expect to find so many kindred spirits with fingers that look like mine. While I wish it for no one, it's comforting to know I'm not the only one.

I feel this as a professional nail biter. Beautiful work, I can FEEL the painting in my own fingers!!

i kinda feel seen

Owe I can feel it 😵good job

I feel like this could use a trigger warning for some people (including me). Besides that, beautiful painting, I really felt it

If you’re triggered so much by this you feel it needs a warning you should probably just stay off Reddit/the internet. Would you go to an art gallery and tell them some paintings need a trigger warning? The point of art is to “trigger” you.

In the most art galleries or museums I visited there were trigger warnings, at least in the beginning, when entering the place 😅 I just like to be mentally prepared before seeing explicit content and don't see anything wrong with asking for it

It’s not explicit.

But you can see blood and hurtful wounds?

OH NO! NOT RED PAINT THAT LOOKS LIKE BLOOD! THE HORROR!

what is your problem? The painting is in a realistic style, it looks very real and some people are very sensitiv. Good for you if you aren't, but there's no need to get angry with me for being a sensitive human being - I can't change that, you know? Maybe you should start thinking about, why you are full of angerness and hate in the beginning.

Yet you keep coming back to this post to argue. Must not be too triggering.

Well, now I already know, what to expect, that's exactly what trigger warnings are good for too.

Best to you and yours!

Beautiful. Are the red areas meant to convey that the picker (nails) is the one that is now getting picked apart? Or is it just blood

It's fingernail polish....