Skull + Flower V4.0 Painting

Skull + Flower V4.0 is the final piece in my Skull +Flower series. With this series, there was a mission to recreate the ever popular relationship between the flower and the skull. However, it was my intention to not bombard the viewer with an intense feeling of the macabre, but an inviting feeling. Hence the use of a warm off-white, which envelopes the skull and flowers. I always am using multiple balances and juxtapositions within all of my work. The black skull, surrounded by the sea of white, as well the skull layered in a sea of flowers. Where most would think a black skull would give off a dark intensity, my hope was for the exact opposite. Skull + Flower series is here to create a calm sense of presence.