Fine white-line wood engraving on warm ivory paper: dense connected black masses opened by fine white cuts, short tapering wedges and tiny light holes that follow the form, with precise paper reserves and no broad gouges, like an old Celtic revival woodcut. Cernunnos, the antlered Celtic god of the wild, seated cross-legged in the heart of a deep forest: a bearded figure with great branching stag antlers holding a torc in one hand and a ram-headed serpent in the other, a stag and a wolf resting at his feet, an enormous oak whose roots and branches fill the tall frame behind him.
Light: a shaft of low moonlight breaking through the oak canopy onto the antlers, the beard and the animals' backs in dense white cuts against deep black bark and shadow, the leaves of the canopy as scattered white wedges; strictly black ink on ivory paper; mystical, ancient, refined; the trunk and antlers rise through the tall frame.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the figure rising through the height of the frame. A dignified, respectful depiction in an authentic Celtic spirit; no readable ogham, runes, inscriptions, letters or logos anywhere, only plain interlace and knotwork borders.
