Careful what you wish for

 
Careful What You Wish For is a portrait of that reckoning — the weight a soldier carries not on their back, but inside, long after the mission is over.

This painting doesn't depict a battle. It depicts something harder — the quiet aftermath. The burden of a profession that asks everything and gives back something that can't always be named. 

It's a painting for anyone who knows what it means to wish for something, get it, and then understand exactly what it cost to have it.

Painted in heavy body acrylics on a 30x40 canvas and worked entirely with palette knives, the surface carries texture and tension in equal measure — nothing here is smooth, nothing is easy, and that's exactly right.

This is a 1-of-1 original painting. 

• Size: 30 × 40 inches on canvas
• Medium: Heavy body acrylics, applied with palette knives
• Year: 2026
• Artist: Invader Girl
• Availability: 1 of 1 original