New painting in the works...

...and now, for something completely different - a new painting!

i've already transferred the sketch onto a 30 by 40 inch canvas (76cm x 102cm for my metric readers) and started blocking it out in acrylics (i stopped using oils, because for some reason they always make me sick).

the text is in Classical Latin, and translates to "the new world 2014 - praise the excess". i'll leave it to you, my readers, to come up with some profound meaning to this, if any (maybe, i just wanted a painting of a 1st century AD Roman legionary and fast food icons hanging above the mantle shadowing the dining table)...

...i just hope i got the Latin right, don't want my College Latin professors thinking all their effort was for naught (Don't despair, David and Barry, its just been a while)...