Lovers Oil Landscape Painting painting of water A priestess hands over the

A priestess hands over the dead to the ferryman who will take them to That Other Shore

Above the witch is a face--perhaps of the target of this work

5"/27 x 37cm on heavy cotton paper and is ready to frame without the necessity of glass

but dark doesn't mean no one is up and about

I love how the reddish color of the wood peeks through the blue-grey bark on a cedar

Lovers Oil Landscape Painting painting of water A priestess hands over theI started this painting with the image of three trees growing next to each other in a local cemetery and modified their forms to increase the sensuality and vitality. Often to me trees have a lot of features of a human body curves, creases, crevices, and openings so I heightened that. I decided against a naturalist approach to color but instead to make use of color "vibration" (combining complementaries, in this case, orange brown and violet). I