Rosco Fine Arts

Pictures & words by Ronald Crittenden

Saturated and stylized rendering of a bower in the Elfin Forest, showing curved and twisted trees.

Elfin Forest

One of the hidden treasures of Los Osos, California — my home — is the preserve of pygmy oak thickets known as the Elfin Forest.

A gnarled, white boned tree guards the entrance to a dark bower.

Portal of the Bone Temple

Twisted, horizontal, bone white oak limbs throw up a barrier to a sunlit area of green foliage beyond.

Guardians of the Secret

Saturated and stylized image of a bone white pygmy oak.

The Maiden

A bright white spread of limbs seems to carry light and energy through a patch of foliage running beside a path.

Main Circuit

Twisted pygmy oaks hung with Spanish moss provide a gateway to the channels of Los Osos' back bay.

Water Gate

A bent-over white tree plunges its limbs into a dark block of thick foliage.

Necromancer

A line of rusty I-beams rise vertically from the forest, seeming to challenge the mountain skyline in the distance.

Skylines

Saturated and stylized rendering of a bower in the Elfin Forest, showing curved and twisted trees.

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