Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting dark angels The original oil painting is

The original oil painting is 16 x 20"/41 x 51cm on cotton canvas with a traditional 7/8"/2cm profile

and the efficacy of the various approaches is evidenced in the bone pile in front of the house

and meeting up with distant friends

and then shallower until it is melded into the trunk's shape

I made both the upper and lower areas the same color to indicate that there is no judgment in being in either place (or in staying in the middle area)

Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting dark angels The original oil painting isI knew as soon as I looked at the central black shape in this painting that it would have to do with the Underworld. I saw the shapes of those involved in rituals to raise the dead assembling in a circle on the left and conjuring an angel a dark one to guide dead souls. I knew I wanted some souls, though, to be climbing out of the Underworld on their own; these are at the left end of the entrance to the Pit. The black figures on the right might be