Oil on Canvas, 12" x 16"

Often, when I'm planning a composition, the idea that begins it isn't a scene or occurance that inspired it.  It's more of a concept.  In this one, I was exploring a few different things at the same time.  1) There was some material exploration: I was trying out a putty medium.  2) I wanted to work with a red/green color relationship.  And 3) I had this image of a blood red moon looking downward menacingly, stuck in my head.

This moon was the only image I started with.  It felt predatory to me.  As I worked, I wanted to enhance that feeling, and the rest of the composition grew around that.