Bringing in the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting - SOLD paganism The stairway is another method

The stairway is another method of ascension but also related to Jacob's dream of the angels going up and down the ladder to heaven and to the concept of an Underworld

The colors are bumped up to represent the glow of life and the cedar's blessed energy

Dark spirits can be as beautiful as bright ones

It's based a cedar growing in a cemetery

Bringing in the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting - SOLD paganism The stairway is another methodA priestess hands over the dead to the ferryman who will take them to That Other Shore. The original mixed media surreal landscape painting is 16 x 20" on heavy cotton watercolor paper. It combines watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil, and should be framed behind glass or acrylic.