MelanieJoy

Eve of a Lover's Moon oil on canvas, gallery wrapped 14x18 inches / 35.5x46 cm Sold Online Store

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Last Night of a Dying Sun oil on canvas 12x24 inches / 30.5x61 cm cdn +shipping $200.00 Online Store I really have no idea when I started it, I believe it was 2006 - like 95% sure. I remember where, just not what year. It has been following me around waiting for me to finish it.  I know that when I started it I wanted it to be a painting of Charn (yes another Narnia reference) but after I did the base work, I realized I did not have the skill set to complete it the way I wanted. Or perhaps I saw a great dying sun and that's as far as my mind took it.  I do have a few paintings waiting for completion from years ago but this one is the oldest. I have been staring at it, off and on for 10 years, pondering, thinking, waiting. Then one day it just felt right. And I am glad I waited because I am love with how it turned out!

Online Store I had the idea for this going around in my head for days along with (of course)   Loreena McKennitt - Night Ride Across The Caucasus I am so happy with how it turned out. In fact, I enjoyed this so much I am making many more, different colors, trees, scenery.... watch for them in the future!

I'll Leave My Love Between The Stars [2016] oil on canvas, gallery wrapped 20x20 inches / 51x51 cm cdn + shipping $350.00 Online Store Have I told you I love the movie Labyrinth yet?  Of course I have. That's the first thing I put on when I picked up my first brush. I have been a David Bowie fan since I was a kid.  But not in the way you think.  I admit that I really am not very familiar with much of his music. And he has a lot! Don't get me wrong though, I love his music. Except the song 'Space Oddity', that one gives me chills to the very core of my being and I don't really know why. The movie was my first introduction to him and wow was he awesome. (He may be the reason that I have always had an attraction to Goth-type men. Or punk men that wear makeup. And men with long hair....) I remember holding up the microphone to the tv speakers to record the music onto a cassette, I was enthralled by all of it.  And it was him, and all tha