Lovers Oil Landscape Painting cemetery goddess The original mixed media landscape

The original mixed media landscape painting is 16 x 20" on heavy cotton watercolor paper and has been sold

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

" This brought all sorts of images to mind

sometimes working

That's what I've tried to portray here

Lovers Oil Landscape Painting cemetery goddess The original mixed media landscapeI 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