My recent painting involving birth! My sister's friend gave birth in late July this year and I got inspired to paint what it would be like having a baby. I'd imagine it would hurt like hell and give you a few tears down there too. My best friend is a nurse and she has seen first degree tears to about fourth degree tears. I used Pebeo acrylic student paint to create this work. I wont use anything else because I absolutely adore their plastic see through tubes of paint! I don't like squeezing tube of paint from a metal tube. So much paint is wasted at the end, and you can't cut them open easily like plastic tubes. I also find that this paint is just as good as the flash Golden brand. I have a yellow Golden paint tube, but refuse to use it now that it has a toxic chemical in it that damages your skin over time. I used to use oil paints while I was at Elam, but found that they were too messy for me and the clean up process took ages. One day when I give birth myself  ( probably will never happen) I will show my child this painting and how painful the birthing process was.