Link and Zelda Rest Together Under a Big Tree — Print & Oil Painting

The tree is the building. It rises out of the bottom left, splits into two heavy limbs and fills the whole upper half with leaf, and a different creature has been hung at each level of it, the way figures get placed on a staircase.

At the roots, the two of them. She leans into his shoulder with her eyes shut and her hair in a loose plait; he sits upright in green with one arm around her, asleep as well. Their clothes are the pale blue and cream of a school uniform rather than anything armoured, and neither one is holding a weapon.

To the left a large red bird with a cream breast has folded itself against the trunk, head down, its long tail sweeping round to the far side of the tree so that it frames the pair without crowding them. On the branch above, a teal-skinned figure with a swept crest and a diamond-marked wrap lies back along the wood holding a small tan animal, and further out along the same limb a dark cat-like creature crouches.

Light comes down through the leaves in soft columns and pools on the grass in front of them, small white sparks drift at every depth, and the palette stays inside a narrow band of yellow-green with the bird's red as the only interruption. From our Zelda collection. Link napping against a tree by the river is the same idea reduced to one sleeper.