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Jun 6, 2011

Woods Witch



Wood Witch

Woods Witch: mixed media on canvas, 2010.  

This was inspired based on the poem "The Wood Witch" by Madison Cawein, about a witch or perhaps will o' the wisp who lures travelers into her swamp.  It's in a collection of Halloween poems I regularly go to.  This was actually the first painting/collage I'd done in many years.  I'd been wanting to explore mixed-media work, and the idea of a haunted bog seemed to be a good place to start playing with layering techniques.  Below is a close-up of one of the lady slippers:

Wood Witch detail

For a first attempt, I was very happy with this.  I really loved how the lady slippers turned out.

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