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

Dark spirits can be as beautiful as bright ones

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

At the center is the angel Metatron

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

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 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