Oil on canvas
2024

Halloween Cosplay is a double portrait of me and my wife cosplaying as the character Tombo and Kiki from the Studio Ghibli film Kiki’s Delivery Service.

Standing in front of a set of stairs with shelves built underneath, my wife is holding a miniature pumpkin and looking to the right. Meanwhile, I am sitting on the stairs, clutching the spindles like jail cell bars and looking through and down at her.

Around her blue dress, I have integrated a red glow, to break up the large areas of dark blue and to resonate with the vibrant red of her bow.