My entry for @juliakponsford's #artexplosion contest. With the theme being 'phantoms', I couldn't resist posting this painting:
"Spook", oils on canvas, 40x60cm (16x24inch)
It is a painting from 2016, and if I find time, I will enter another (made-for-the-contest) painting before the deadline.
The 'Spook' itself has glow-in-the-dark paint sprayed over it by the way, but I never could manage to photograph it like that proper.
In the summer the glow-in-the-dark adds little value; but in the winter, when it gets dark early, I always enjoyed the painting in a dim-lit part of the house, glowing softly greenish. Not terrifying or horrifying - just a sympathetic phantom lurking about, shimmering and watching you reading a book.
Now there might be an idea for a new series!