Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting pink and blue paintings This teaches us that even

This teaches us that even when we are in the dark

as I often do

The original abstract watercolor painting is 9 x 12"/23 x 30cm on heavy cotton watercolor paper and has been sold

where he writes in a scroll

In this painting

Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting pink and blue paintings This teaches us that evenI 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