The painting uses the Chiaroscuro technique - the use of dramatic contrast between light and dark to capture the intense feeling of something lingering in the dark. Emphasizing the emptiness between a bed of roses, that bleed through the darkness and peeking under, and the soft candlelight that halos a solitary ballerina.
Dimensions: 25" by 20"
Materials: oil paint on stretched canvas, wooden frame

Oil painting on canvas, depicting a toad sitting on a mushroom with a joint dangling from his lips.

15” by 20”