War

I took a trip to Belgium years ago. I kept a journal on the trip and made a small illustration for the top of each day's entry. This is the illustration for a day we toured World War I battlefields around Ypres. I tried to convey the horrible loss and desolation of that war at that place - and, more broadly, war in general. This image is of a larger painting I made from that illustration for an art exhibit with the theme of peace.

Acrylic painting on stretched canvas, 12 x 40"