Stone of wisdom

This is not a simple stone. Symbolic picture with closely composition peculiar to some symbolic works. This is an ancient rock, covered with moss and lichen. The picture emphasizes the faith of the ancestors in the power of inanimate objects, in fact, that even the stones could have a soul, as strange as it may sound. In the Middle Ages there was a story on the extraction of stone of stupidity from the human head, for example, in Boschs graphic art. It was a symbolic picture about stupidity, I took the stone in a way completely different matter.
Phoenix Canvas, peanut oil, paints: Classico, Sennelier, ours. Forest green paint - used Schminke Mussini to wipe after completing the picture (clear). Using high-quality high-priced paints, especially transparent, allows to achieve effects that do not get with russian oil paints Master Class.