charcoal sketch on paper
oil sketch on canvas
almost completed sketch
adding tree to foreground in oils
painting oils on canvas
colored wax is painted on
adding clear wax to entire image
oil pigment is added
Darkened shadows
inspirations by oil and wax artist, Martine L'Etoile
channeling the abstract 
It is magic. As I scrolled down, in the first sketch, I thought the tent might have been pitched in the snow. What does the title refer to? Did it appear in your backyard as if by magic? Is it the tent of an itinerant magician, fortune teller or angel? Is there a story?