The Golden Bough (Work in Progress)

Working on a painting called “The Golden Bough”. The images here are of colored pencil on black gessoed canvas, but now its time to start painting in oils & go looking for the shade of Caravaggio in the underworld.

The title “The Golden Bough” is a reference to Virgil’s Aeneid. The Golden Bough is a branch from the sacred tree that allows safe passage through the underworld. Two doves sent by Venus guide Aeneas to the tree.