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This is an acrylic painting on masonite board, measuring 40 x 60 cm. It depicts a mythical creature called a Huldra, native to Norway and Sweden.
She is known as The Lady of the Forest, and is known to both tempt men and drain all their energy, and to bless those who are respectful of her (never mention her tail!)
This is part of my "Fragile Things" collection - which will be on show in September 2012 in MalmΓΆ, Sweden.
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Spine Peckers are a notorious nuisance.
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This is just amazing, simply amazing. No word can describe the awesomeness of your work.
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you are too kind to me! I am so happy you like it
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Hi!
Your work has been FEATURED IN MY JOURNAL here: [link]
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thank you hun, and very merry christmas to you ^^
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Cool! I love mythology, you drew her just the way I have always imagined her to look like. Wonderful work!
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why thank you! its a very rare creature, props to you for knowing what it is!
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It might help that I'm from sweden, but it was in an old game I played when I was little, they mentioned her there how she looked.
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Ooo how rare again, a swedish artist ^^ I am not swedish myself, I am american - but I live in the MalmΓΆ area 
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ok
I wish, but MalmΓΆ is a far way from Stockholm where I live now. Otherwise I would love to!
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I am engaged to a Swede! But am mindlessly terrible at speaking Swedish forgive me 
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hehe, I'm sure that's cool, most sweds understand english^^
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pretty picture...your Huldra is beautiful and sensual
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Hmz, I think I've heard the name mentioned somewhere before.
Anyway great work, would love to see more of mythical folk creatures
from countries around Europe, there's deffinaitly not enough of that.
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i can agree to that ^^ some good research into old mythical creatures from europe would actually be really fun!
ill have to do that in a few months time
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Yes, I'm thinking about the same thing
- thou my studies would all go around slavic
mythology - there's so little of illustrations
of those creatures anywhere, and there's alot of those
"guys" around.
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Wow... have you taken formal lessons to be this good and to have such a strong command of the medium of acrylics? I know this is in a Self Taught group, but I find it so difficult to believe you taught yourself this! How long have you been painting with acrylics?
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Lol, youre too sweet
I did alot of art when I was a teenager, but I really hated acrylics back then. However, I stopped drawing for about 5 years and when starting again acrylics were a very forgiving and cheap starter artform.
I began painting with acrylics November 2010, and painted with them on and off for one year till I started with this style and have been working hard ever since!
No such thing as standing still right with art right
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Wow! Well, your hard work is paying off. I love acrylics because they are cheap and I'm learning as I go what I can do with them. I had to stop what I was doing at first, to loosen up my painting skills I moved to Abstract. I'm close to moving on to bigger and better things, now that I'm not painting so "tight and rigid" if you know what I mean. I have a book on Acrylics, slowly going through it. I need to get on youtube, I've had others tell me the same, to give me pointers. Well, keep up the good work!
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Thanks! I sure will try my best ^^
Self study may be difficult at times, but its well worth it for those of us who want to improve right? I think acrylics are a fantastic paint to do that with.
Enjoy the journey
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aww thank you honey ^^
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thank you gaara ^^
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Please call me Stephie^^
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I will ^^ Hi Stephie, I am Christina
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