R3 Three Ravens
24x24" oil on panel
Private Collection
Actually the first Raven Series painting with ravens. I was not keeping a journal at the time, so how the Raven series got started remains a fuzzy memory. I do know that I had intended to paint Northern birds. I had done a small panel in this style with gesso. I had so much fun with the ravens in this painting, I continued with them, and they became the longest series I have ever done.
Also influencing me were the images evoked during the writing of my novel, Raven, on which I was working intensively at the time.
There were three ravens sat on a tree
They were as black as they might be
With a hey down derry, derry, derry, down, down.
The one of them said to his mate
Where shall we our breakfast take?
Down in yonder green field
There lies a knight slain under his shield.
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