Michael WhelanMichaelWhelan@mastodon.art

Oct 24, 2026, 2:38 PM

The board originally had a figure sketch on it from the work I did for Lucca Comics & Games. When I saw it turned 90 degrees sideways, I was struck by the shapes and one thing lead to another...the figures turned into a “tree.”

Executed with acrylics left over from an underpainting on a gallery piece that I was working on. 2/2

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/2019-leftover-7/

Figure detail from THE WITCHING TREE featuring a nude female from an angled viewpoint. Her legs are together and her arms out so her body forms a Y-shape. Light hits her from above illuminating the top of her torso but leaving everything below her ribs in shadow.

Background detail from THE WITCHING TREE featuring eyes set in the gnarled surface of the tree. Branches reach out against gray sky like tendrils, one piercing the sliver of crescent moon.