#forest background

Been re-watching some old movies lately ✮ ⋆ ☾ 𓃗 ⭐︎☆

This was a commissioned painting for a client asking for a 'Celebi in a forest' scene. I really pushed myself to make this background and I'm relieved that its been so well received 😌

I spent actual real time making this

Dante Gabriel Rossetti identified closely with the medieval poet Dante Alighieri. Rosetti saw his own despair at the death of his wife, the artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, through Dante’s writings about the death of his beloved, Beatrice Portinari. Beata Beatrix pictures Siddal as Portinari in a dreamlike Florentine setting. Siddal’s death is re-imagined as a ‘spiritual transfiguration'. As an omen of death, a bird drops a white poppy between her open hands. In the background, Dante looks across at the figure of Love who holds the flame of life, and a sundial marks the time of her passing.

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