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OK, forgive me for a couple of things:
1. I had to photograph this by myself, so it's tilted, and therefore you can see the outside of my house behind it.
2. It's big, so the details aren't as great as they could have been.
3. I tried a new style, and I don't know if it's all that great, because halfway through it I discovered I loved looking at other folks' art in this style, but I realllly hate painting in it.

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This is Sequana, a Celtic/Gallic goddess of the River Seine. She is a healing goddess, an earth mother, and a solar deity (hence the duck boat she stands upon--ducks are a solar image in Celtic symbolism). She's an ancient Iron Age goddess--as old as a few thousand years, in fact.

To me, she's a beautiful, loving, mothering deity, and I've known of her for quite some time. Probably not as long as she's known of me, though.

I've attempted to paint her in Russian Palekh style; the style of art that icon painters in Russia adopted to paint fairy tales and bucolic scense after Communism put a stop to anything religious.

I tried following it to a T, but it's difficult because I love. Love. LOVE layering and blending colors and shading, and it calls for almost none-- just the flesh and sometimes the clouds. Yep.

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Description
***Comment before you fave, please***

OK, forgive me for a couple of things:
1. I had to photograph this by myself, so it's tilted, and therefore you can see the outside of my house behind it.
2. It's big, so the details aren't as great as they could have been.
3. I tried a new style, and I don't know if it's all that great, because halfway through it I discovered I loved looking at other folks' art in this style, but I realllly hate painting in it.

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This is Sequana, a Celtic/Gallic goddess of the River Seine. She is a healing goddess, an earth mother, and a solar deity (hence the duck boat she stands upon--ducks are a solar image in Celtic symbolism). She's an ancient Iron Age goddess--as old as a few thousand years, in fact.

To me, she's a beautiful, loving, mothering deity, and I've known of her for quite some time. Probably not as long as she's known of me, though.

I've attempted to paint her in Russian Palekh style; the style of art that icon painters in Russia adopted to paint fairy tales and bucolic scense after Communism put a stop to anything religious.

I tried following it to a T, but it's difficult because I love. Love. LOVE layering and blending colors and shading, and it calls for almost none-- just the flesh and sometimes the clouds. Yep.

***Comment before you fave, please***