Lovers Oil Landscape Painting painting of water Dark spirits can be as

Dark spirits can be as beautiful as bright ones

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

I created this abstract painting with watercolors to depict bone-like shapes bound by red threads of energy that wrap them and prevent them from action

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

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

Lovers Oil Landscape Painting painting of water Dark spirits can be asI 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