Oil on canvas, 24" x 36" (2026) by Dylan Ilarde

The subject itself was not inspired by anything in particular. If you haven’t realized already I just love painting cool things, but there is something special I realized while painting this piece.

The whole time I was thinking about this year. All the challenges that kept coming up and the hardships that came with it. One thing I did was take those challenges head on and learned to adapt to them. I learned how to be unbothered. Unbothered by the heat that kept coming my way.

But, im still learning. And the thing that this painting taught me was that I still need to keep going