Plaything in one's palm
He used his hands, palette knives, rags, anything that could smear and slash and gouge.
The painting that emerged was a nightmare in pigment. It was a chaotic vortex of black, deep crimson, and sickly yellow. There were no recognizable forms, only jagged lines that suggested broken glass, grasping hands, and screaming mouths. In the center, a figure was being torn apart, its form dissolving into the violent energy surrounding it. It was raw, ugly, and utterly, terrifyingly honest. It was the scream his body couldn't utter.
He was lost in the frenzy of creation, his hands covered in paint, his breath coming in ragged gasps, when the door to the studio flew open with a force that made the wall