It is the witching hour in the garden. The moon is high, and this elven sorceress’ power is at its height. She waits for the moonlight to shine on this sacred grove.

There has always been something about a fall full moon that I have found to be more enchanting than any other time of the year. Perhaps it is that the humidity is lower and so the moon seems closer. No matter the reason, I tried to capture that feeling when creating this during Halloween 2006.

Colored pencil on 9x12 black artagan paper. It was originally a daylight picture, but I guess with Halloween approaching it evolved into this. Also she looks a lot more ticked off than intended. I was going more for soultry but it turned out to be more sinister, just that time of year I suppose.