Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" In the past

In the past

Smoke coming from the house's chimney is magically guided into the form of a three-headed snake to scare off stupid jerks

builds a powerful

The Witching Herbs

which was actually covered with dead leaves

Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" In the pastSome wonderfully old beech trees guard our local graveyards. Their bark is as wrinkled as an elephant's. I wanted to portray the crone nature of one of these cemetery trees without falling into what for me is the trap of Naturalism, so I depicted the creases in this tree's skin by using light. The apricot moonbeams highlight the tree's wrinkles and gnarls and its very sensual form. The original oil painting is 16 x 20" 41 x 51cm on cotton canvas with