A Conspiracy of Ravens

 For this project we had to take a piece from our current portfolio and rework it as a different style. I have been a fan of Edgar Allen Poe since I was a teenager, so I decided to incorporate his portrait into a surrealist rework of a painting of some ravens flying at sunset.

Here is the original.




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