Lovers Oil Landscape Painting painting of water Above the witch is a

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

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

you see something like sun gleams in green water

The original oil painting is 18 x 24"/46 x 61cm on cotton canvas with a 3/4"/2cm profile and is ready to frame

Dark spirits can be as beautiful as bright ones

Lovers Oil Landscape Painting painting of water Above the witch is aI 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