Early painting

Found this old slide of a painting I did in either high school or just out of college, I really am not sure, I will have to find out. I think it was oil paint. It is about 5' tall. I was facinated by the works of some talented local High School artists from another part of town in Columbus, Ohio. The artists were David And Dan Kirk, now known as famous illustrators. Anyway they did these amazing super-realistic paintings with shaped canvases, really outstanding work for high school kids. Of course this is my rip of of David Kirks' painting which had a body and flowers as well. My take was not at all the same painting. I called this one Thanotopisis after a poem by Henry David Thoreau about returning to the earth. My sister is the model. (I was a tad morbid back in High School)