Fresh off years of drug addiction, a presidential impeachment saga that involved his work in Ukraine, and agreeing to pay child support to an Arkansas stripper he impregnated, Hunter Biden is pursuing a career in painting.

In a pool house-turned-art studio behind his 2,000-square-foot Hollywood Hills home, Biden, dressed in work boots and a pearl snap button-down shirt, is painting psychedelic florals in ink. The New York Times featured the son of former Vice President Joe Biden in a lengthy profile in which Hunter Biden said painting is "literally keeping me sane."

“For years, I wouldn’t call myself an artist. Now, I feel comfortable saying it," Biden said. “You have to be really focused in order to be able to alter it to your own imagination.”

Biden, who has struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, has recently been involved in a paternity case. Biden has attempted to hide his financial records and delay the child support deposition until after key primary states in his father's run for the presidency are decided.

Biden's name was highlighted throughout President Trump's impeachment investigation after the president asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Joe and Hunter Biden's dealings in the country.

Biden said his new wife, 33-year-old Melissa Cohen, hates when he gets painting supplies on his clothes. "I always get my pants dirty,” Biden said. “I don’t even notice it, but Melissa hates it.” He got a tattoo of the word "shalom" on his left bicep the day after meeting Cohen, who lived in Israel for seven years.

“I was addicted to crack for four years,” he said. “I went through a really long period of addiction, and I was at a point where I didn’t read, write, think. I don’t do things halfway. That can be a problem.”

Biden, 50, is expecting a fifth child, this one with Cohen.

Biden has no formal training as a painter and has yet to land gallery representation, but he plans on exhibiting his work in the future. Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, a former board member of the Whitney Museum in New York City, said she believes Biden can have a successful career in the art world due to his prominent last name.

Biden is not the first high-profile member of politics to turn to a career in painting. Former President George W. Bush has been hailed as a contemporary artist after his figurative paintings were revealed to the public following his two terms in the Oval Office.

Biden said painting allows him to put his energy toward a positive place and that his ink pieces are the "one thing they can’t take away from me."

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