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i felt like drawing something more "Klimtishly" decorative and a bit more tragic than my usual stuff, the picture is obviously inspired by the G.Garcia Marquez' book "Of Love and Other Demons" and its poor heroine - possessed (or not really possessed? why knows:shrug:) Sierva Maria de Todos los Angeles, those of you who read the really fine book will easily know why there is a little bell tied to her wrist, and the cluster of grapes and the somewhat stormy hair(yeah,i must say - a bit shamelessly since it's me who made the drawing-I do like how the hair turned out to look like in the picture:))
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~RoseOfGod Jul 5, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Why does she have a skeleton hand?
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*barbarakonczarek Mar 5, 2013  Professional General Artist
it's because she's in fact a corpse, a corpse with her hair miracously still intensely growing after her death, that's what happens to the body of Sierva Maria de Todos los Angeles in the book, but your amazement is partly justified by the fact that she's got her head and upper parts still -let's say - quite "uneaten by the worms" in my picture...^^;, well, let's say it's was a little "licentia artistica" to leave it that way instead of drawing a "bare" sceleton with cascades of hair;)
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~RoseOfGod Mar 5, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Okay.

It's very beautiful. Her hair must have took a good bit of your time.
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:iconmafagafinha:
Own, só perfect! *-* It's a good captures of Sierva Maria *-*
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:iconmolleesue:
really captures the character of sierva maria
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:iconmolleesue:
really captures sierva maria
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:iconswedishdragon:
WOOOOOWW!!! Thats alot of detailwork!
Gooood Job:D
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:iconfinickyfinchee:
WOW
Just wow.
I love how you love details and how it doesn't overwhelm the whole picture or that it does overwhelm which gives the whole picture an amazing atmosphere
and again WOW
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:iconbabypocho:
I love the detail of the skeleton hand near the "deathly cluster of grapes" heheh, and the crazy, fire-like hair, because it's the main focus of the picture, and it's a main focus of the book. Great job :D
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:iconkimbot:
That hair! It's like a pile of dyed peacock feathers, or yarn, or wet fur. With the calm face and fine cloth details, this is just fantastic. Beautiful work, lady.
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