"The Three Trees" Original PaintingOil on Linen, 20x30 The woman is a princess who is no longer allowed in the castle across the river where she was born. The three trees mark the boundary that now marks her life because she chose forbidden love. For this piece, I used the Venetian technique, where multiple small glazes are used to slowly build up richness and texture. The original bottom layers are much lighter, but the painting became darker as I added more layers. A third of the way

This is a portrait of Johnny Cash

This is a portrait of Gladys Knight

I "carved" the detail into it

The three trees mark the boundary that now marks her life

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it was a daylight scene

I use a dark oil wash over the entire painting and then scrape away part of that layer to reveal highlights and emphasize shadows

The central mass arises from a cave floor

The man in black

She clutches a bouquet of flowers

the townspeople drove him out of town for allegedly hiring teenage girls to model naked for him

but never uninspired - the image is loosely based on a sculpture from a Russian cemetery in St