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The subject of the portrait is Aslaug, the reported daughter
of Sigurd and the shieldmaiden Brynhildr, from Norse Mythology. The shadow of a
wing falls across her visage to imply her moniker, <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">Kråka </span>(‘Crow’), given to her
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Aslaug's dress of layered netting and shells refers to her battle of wits with the
legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok, in which he challenges her to meet him “neither
dressed nor undressed, hungry nor full and alone nor in company.” She arrives
dressed in a net, biting an onion and with only a dog as a companion. Impressed
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;">-Jojen Reed; Game of Thrones: Dark Wings, Dark Words (3.2)</span></i></span><br />
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“He is a skin-changer. He changes his skin: sometimes he is
a huge black bear, sometimes he is a great strong black-haired man with huge
arms and a great beard…Some say that he is a bear descended from the great and
ancient bears of the mountains that lived there before the giants came. Others
say he is a man descended from the first men who lived before Smaug or the other
dragons came into this part of the world, and before goblins came into the
hills out of the North. I cannot say, though I fancy the last is the true tale…
I once saw him sitting all alone on the top of the Carrock at night watching
the moon sinking towards the Misty Mountains, and I heard him growl in the
tongue of bears: ‘The day will come when they will perish and I shall go back!’
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The imagery conjured by this passage has remained with me
for nearly a year and a half. Countless projects have seen completion before
this one, but ‘Beorn’ preceded them as a nearly polished idea in my
subconscious. Despite its simplicity, illustrating the transfiguration of Beorn
into a black bear was immensely challenging. The ambiguity of this ‘in-between’
stage was compensated for by fog and light. Intending for this to be more than
portrait, I knew I had to introduce a conceptual element. I capitalized on the
shapeshifter’s affinity for animals by encircling his body in an ethereal current
made up of birds. Although Beorn had a particular love of bees, they didn’t
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I am mightily excited for Swedish actor Mikael Persbrant's portrayal of Beorn in the second installment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug. Although I did not take visual cues from Persbrant in this portrait, the duality of his facial expressions recall the kindness and ferocity of a bear. Excellent casting choice. </div>
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A birthday gift inspired by Disney’s animated film, ‘Brave’
for one of my closest friends. The painting borrows from a scene where <st1:city>Merida</st1:city>
and her bewitched mother are taking shelter in a dark grove. While the other
slumbers, <st1:city>Merida</st1:city> lies awake in
guilt and recalls happier times with her mother during childhood.</div>
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The lack of reference used in the overall painting distanced
me from my traditional realism and brought out a whimsical quality that I might
not have otherwise achieved. I’ll admit to avoiding moonlit environments where
possible because of the change in visual perception. According to a recent
scientific hypothesis, moonlight is not blue, but slightly redder than the
average colour of direct sunlight. There is nothing in the interaction between the
sun’s reflection on the surface of the moon to suggest the colour blue.
Although the colour-receptive rods in the human eye are incapacitated by
moonlight, scientific instruments have shown them to be most sensitive to
greenish wavelengths of light. As a result, blue-green hues appear lighter in
tone in dim conditions. The phenomenon is identified as the <i>Purkinje Shift. </i>It
is different from, and often mistaken for, the perception of moonlight as blue.
Despite adhering to the <i>Purkinje Shift</i> in my painting, <st1:city>Merida</st1:city>’s
hair is still a fiery and brilliant red :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Each year at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, artists
voluntarily donate a 6” x 6” unique artwork to support the exhibition’s
fundraising effort, </span><i style="background-color: white;">Art Squares</i><span style="background-color: white;">. I chose to create an illustration
inspired by Foster the People’s uplifting concert at </span><st1:place style="background-color: white;"><st1:placename>Downsview</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> on </span><st1:date day="19" month="6" style="background-color: white;" year="2012">June 19, 2012</st1:date><span style="background-color: white;">. Tuesday evening’s performance,
featuring Foster the People and local openers Tokyo Police Club, went ahead
despite a tragic stage collapse that occurred before a scheduled Radiohead
concert the preceding weekend. I recall merging with the migrating crowd on a
long stretch of road toward The Meadow when the wreckage came into view. An aura
of sombreness and foreboding hovered over us all until greeted by the up-tempo
beats, captivating lyrics and impressive light show of the concert’s double
feature. Midway through Foster the People’s set, Mark Foster paid a touching
tribute to the late Scott Johnson, a casualty of Saturday’s incident. “We make
music to bring joy to people” Foster said poignantly as he went on to describe
the bonds of friendship shared between a band and its crew members while
touring. Foster the People and musical guest Kimbra continued their celebration of life in grand fashion
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Foster the People formed in <st1:city>Los Angeles</st1:city>
and carry many Californian sensibilities. Accordingly, my decorative painting
features the state’s national bird, The California Quail. The quail is
widespread and appears in the mythology and legends of numerous cultures as a symbol
for a contrite spirit, communal love, victory and the hunt. I always found it
quite humorous that their call sounds as though it were exclaiming, “Run, Run Run”
or “The man is coming, the man is coming!”.</div>
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The expressive anthropomorphic flower gestures at the
animated sun the band featured in their main act. The mood of the piece was
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The weeks heralding our Grad Show on April 19 and 20 were
charged with heavy emotion and anticipation. Late nights and early mornings
were interchangeably spent finishing artwork and essays, conducting
self-promotion initiatives and getting our grad show display underway. We
survived the endurance test on our souls and creativity by encouraging one
another and never losing sight of our goals. Thank you to everyone who has
journeyed with me through these past four years :). You are exceptionally
talented and wonderful people. I offer my heartfelt congratulations to all.
Above all, I must acknowledge those professors who underwent much toil in preparing
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The layout of my final display board and accordion on corner
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events of my four years at </span><st1:city style="background-color: white;">Sheridan</st1:city><span style="background-color: white;">,
namely Grad Show and Graduation, I would be more than pleased to share my
sentiments with you in retrospect. I apologize to those followers who have been
patient with my infrequent updates. The following half of the summer will
guarantee plenty of creative progress as I prepare for FanExpo 2012.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The stretch of months between January and April of this year
comprised alternating periods of conceptualisation, execution and revisions to
my final thesis project. More than often they did not ensue in this order. I
felt compelled to speed up my rendering process by turning to media outside
acrylic and oil paints that could demonstrate similar painterly effects in a
fraction of the time. I harnessed a method which combines the vibrant colour
and effortless blending of soft pastel with tight brushwork in acrylic. With
each piece this experimentation revealed more aspects of its character, ranging
from cooperative to untameable. I eventually learned that acrylic and pastel
can co-exist while occupying discrete areas on the same surface, only lightly
infringing on each other’s territory. That and never throw gouache into the
same mix. The latter is what led to obliterating thick layers of water and sky
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finding a printing bureau that could manufacture a one-off 11”
x 72” accordion at a decent price and quality was no small feat. Then again,
this is one of several cases where an artist’s vision is incompatible with the harsh
practicality of reality. Thankfully in the final weeks before my graduation
exhibition, a company called Global Printing Enterprises took on the challenge
and excelled magnificently. The cover was created by refurnishing an old
children’s book and applying a faux leather bind. Here are the results :)</span></div>
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The completed Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (A.D.1122-1190). I am actually quite pleased with how this piece in the series turned out.Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01406284671629384091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861285201681189284.post-84132478357467614232012-05-16T14:49:00.000-07:002012-05-16T14:49:20.187-07:00Toell the Great (Suur Tõll)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Toell the Great <span style="font-family: inherit;">(<i style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Suur Tõll) </i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">in Estonian mythology is a great giant hero who lived and ruled as king on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Ösel). In </span></span>Tõlluste village he made his dwelling place as a modest farmer who was in the habit of tossing large rocks at his archenemy Vanatühi or other enemies of the Saaremaa people. He was reportedly so tall that he would walk the distance to the neighbouring island <span style="font-family: inherit;">Hiiumaa <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">(Dagö) in easy stride. His walking stick was a 5 fathoms spruce trunk. Toell's life came to an abrupt end when an opposing giant decapitated him in a confrontation with invading Danish hordes. His body, headless and transformed into wood, grasped the foe and annihilated him before taking hold of his own head, impaling it on a sword and walking to his grave. Upon his death, Toell gave a solemn vow to rise from the dead and help his people in case of war. insolent children, however, mocked his promise by circling his resting place and yelling aloud, "Toell, Toell wake up, there is a war in the yard!." Toell rose, gerw angry with them for their trickery and returned to his grave swearing never to return. These circumstances render Toell the Great as an anti-King Under Mountain hero.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">The giant's story is celebrated in the 1980 Soviet-era film, </span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Suur Tõll. </i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">The full animation can be seen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEI06J00nk">here</a>.</span><br />
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Portrayal of the tragic figure Oedipus Rex from Sophocles' Greek tragedy, "Oedipus Rex"; Created as part of a collaborative show for my freelance internship this past summer.Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01406284671629384091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861285201681189284.post-64324230343168225932012-03-05T14:05:00.003-08:002012-03-05T14:08:00.101-08:00Bolesław I Chrobry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S-H1WewdVp0/T1U4ktR6w7I/AAAAAAAAAOs/ZiMfinoCMs4/s1600/BoleslawFinal2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S-H1WewdVp0/T1U4ktR6w7I/AAAAAAAAAOs/ZiMfinoCMs4/s400/BoleslawFinal2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Bolesław I Chrobry or Bolesław I the Brave (967-1025) was Duke of Poland from 992-1025 and the first King of Poland from 1025 until his death. As firstborn child to the revered Miesko I, the first historical ruler of the Piast dynasty, Bolesław's remarkable tact as a politician, strategist and statesman elevated Poland into the pantheon of Europe's elite. The first crude effigy of the P</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">olish White Eagle</span><span lang="EN" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">, the emblem of the Piast dynasty, can be found on the first crowned king of Poland's silver denarius.</span></span>Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01406284671629384091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861285201681189284.post-56830239892990745612012-03-05T14:02:00.000-08:002012-03-05T14:02:05.805-08:00Month of March<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UCRMPwoR1y0/T1U3lxyPkPI/AAAAAAAAAOg/kIUT9epSvvQ/s1600/March+Calendar2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UCRMPwoR1y0/T1U3lxyPkPI/AAAAAAAAAOg/kIUT9epSvvQ/s400/March+Calendar2.jpg" width="281" /></a></div>A hand-painted mosaic calendar portraying Mars, the Roman god of war and agriculture.Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01406284671629384091noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861285201681189284.post-8727684732648494742012-02-29T14:04:00.002-08:002012-02-29T14:15:16.005-08:00Kukai (Kōbō-Daishi)Kukai (Kōbō-Daishi) was a 9th century Japanese monk, civil servant, scholar, poet, artist and founder of the Shingon or 'True Word' school of Buddhism. According to Japanese folklore, he is not dead, but 'meditating' beneath Mount Koya, awaiting the coming of Maitreya. Kukai's followers deliver him nourishment and a change of clothes daily, and a massive cemetery has sprung around his resting place.<br />
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This fifth piece in my King Under Mountain series was perhaps the most enjoyable to make, as it was rendered entirely in pastel. Despite the trickiness of the medium, it yields beautiful effects with enough patient experimentation.<br />
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<i>So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up </i><br />
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King Arthur (Arthur Pendragon) is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and 6th centuries who led the defense against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The fine points of Arthur's tale have been gleaned mainly from folklore and literary convention, and his sparse historical background from various posthumous sources including the <i>Historia Brittonum </i>and the writings of Gildas. As he and his warriors prepared to march on Rome after a series of conquests in Norway, Denmark and Gaul, Arthur heard word that his nephew Mordred, whom he left in charge of Britain in his absence, had seized his throne and married his wife Guinevere. Arthur returned hastily to Britain, defeated and killed Mordred on the river Camlan in Cornwall but sustained mortal injuries of his own. On his deathbed, he bequeathed his crown to his kinsman Constantine and was taken to the isle of Avalon to be healed. From this point the Arthurian legend curtails for he was never seen or heard from again. Local folktale sources claim that Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table currently reside in a remote mountain dwelling, sleeping until the hour of Britain's greatest need. <br />
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In nearly all of my thesis pieces, I have used a common visual motif where nature encroaches on man or the long-time sleeper. For the sixth painting in my King Under Mountain series, I capitalized on the watery element of Arthur's katabasis or symbolic journey toward death in Avalon.<br />
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Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01406284671629384091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861285201681189284.post-49261484317836324592012-01-18T00:13:00.000-08:002012-01-18T00:21:55.791-08:00Old Falka and the Sleeping GiantsA three page narrative that tells the Polish legend of the unknowing blacksmith Falka and the mysterious stranger who leads him through the valley of Koscielisko to a high mountain peak where King Bolesław I Chobry and his knights are slumbering. Segments of the original tale have been included in the text of each illustration. Read the full account of the legend <a href="http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/legends/SK1.pdf">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Image #1: Victor Frankenstein catches a glimpse of the wretch near the location of William’s murder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Image #2: Murder</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of <city><place>Elizabeth</place></city> in her bridal bier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Image #3: Discovery of Henry Clerval’s corpse</span><br />
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A renown giant and king of Britain in Welsh folklore, Bran the Blessed’s (Welsh<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">: </span><span lang="cy" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" xml:lang="cy"><i>Bendigeidfran</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">, literally "Blessed Raven", also </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Brân Fendigaidd</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">) </span> live severed head was buried at his behest under the White Tower in London, facing France. The head served as a powerful talisman, protecting Britain from invasion for countless generations before it was excavated and turned around by the pious King Arthur, who claimed that from that point forward, Britain would be safeguarded by God and his armies alone.<br />
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In the Welsh tale of Bran the Blessed’s sister Branwen, Bran dispatches a formidable army to avenge the Irish king Matholwch’s maltreatment of his beloved sibling. The king’s swineherd witness their movements on the open sea and consult their queen:<br />
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“Hail to your Lordship!’ said they. ‘We have seen a forest on the ocean, where we never before saw a single tree…we see a great mountain beside the forest, and it is moving; and a high ridge on the mountain with a lake on each side of the ridge; and the forest and the mountain and the rest are all in motion.”<br />
Upon hearing this, Branwen decodes the cryptic display,<br />
“I know what this is. The men of the Island of the Mighty are coming over, for they have heard of my being punished and dishonoured”<br />
‘And what was the mountain which they saw beside the ships?’ said they.<br />
‘That was my brother, Bran the Blessed,’ she said. ‘wading through the shallows. There was no ship that could carry him’.<br />
‘What was the high ridge with a lake on each side?’<br />
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‘That was he, looking upon this island,’said she, ‘for he is angry. His eyes on each side of his nose are the two lakes on each side of the ridge’<br />
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Bran’s love, which assumed a degree so powerful that both the forces of nature and man were summoned to preserve it, inspired this serene portrait. The giant’s mild expression and glistening eyes imply wisdom, his smile a hint of mischief. The horizon line is marked by the presence of the White Cliffs of Dover which served as Britain’s natural defense against aggressors crossing the English Channel. Bran represents the perfect confluence of dormant and active energies--the stationary monolith rising from the channel in a mantle of evanescent fog, the viking horde ascending the cliff tops. I will likely continue in this vein for the remainder of the series.<br />
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Initial concepts for Bran the Blessed, which gave greater focus to the 'severed head' notion than was perhaps acceptable. The intent here is that these images will appeal to adults and children alike.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">He led successful military campaigns to the west, south and east, consolidating Polish lands and conquered territories outside the modern borders of the country such as Slovakia, Moravia, Red Ruthenia, Meissen, Lusatia and Bohemia. The king inherited from his father a realm that resembled the dimensions of what is now Greater Poland or Wielkopolska. Greater Poland comprised the valley of the river Warta, stretching north to the Notec River and Kalisz in the south.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Legend, however, says he is not dead, but asleep with his knights in a cave in the </span>Kyffhäuser<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> mountain in </span>Thuringia<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> or Mount </span>Untersberg<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> in Bavaria, Germany. When the ravens cease to fly around the mountain he will awake and restore Germany to its former golden age. The emperor's red beard must wrap three times around the perimeter of the table at which he sits before he is to wake. TV tropes informs me that it has only grown twice around thus far :P</span><br />
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These legendary undead heros, often accompanied by armied retainers/legions, sleep in remote and covert dwellings which include caves, mountaintops, islands or mystical worlds. It is foretold that they will waken at the hour of their country’s greatest need. The presence of the hero goes unsuspected until a herdsman or meandering passerby enters the cave unknowingly and chances upon him. In nearly every tale, the hero has become withered by centuries of sleeping under the mountain and has grown a long beard. The witness is in most cases supernaturally harmed by the experience, especially if his actions cause a disservice to the resting King, or worse, rouses him to wake. A far cry from the familiar Sleeping Beauty tale isn’t it? The King Under Mountain motif still resonates with us in contemporary times with the hopeful return of such famed entertainment figures as Elvis Presley or Tupac Shakur.<br />
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As part of my fourth year thesis proposal, I plan to create a Japanese fold accordion book that will feature at least 8-10 illustrations of sleeping warriors, complete with full-page descriptions of each character and their respected nations. Potential candidates are as follows (or more specifically, those that caught my interest):<br />
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1) Holger Danske--Denmark<br />
2) <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Bolesław I Chrobry</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span>and his retinue of knights--Poland<br />
3) Frederick Barbarossa--Germany<br />
4) Bran the Blessed--Wales<br />
5) Brynhildr--Scandinavia (Viking Lore)<br />
6) King Arthur--England<br />
7) King Sebastian--Portugal<br />
8) Vytautas, the Great--Lithuania<br />
9) Väinämöinen--Finland (Hero of National Kalevala)<br />
10) Lāčplēsis “Bear-Slayer”--Latvia<br />
11) Toell the Great--Estonia<br />
12) Kralj Matjaž<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span>--Slovenia<br />
13) Seven Queens of Sindh--Pakistan<br />
14) Prince Marko Kraljević--Serbia<br />
15) Casaba, son of Attila the Hun--Hungary<br />
16) Kukai, 9th century Buddhist monk--Japan<br />
17) Fenibeso, first sole ruler of Okrika (Nigeria)--Africa<br />
18) Golem of Prague--Ukraine<br />
19) Wenceslaus I--Czech Republic<br />
20) Thomas the Rhymer--Scotland<br />
21) Gearoidh Iarla (Earl Gerald)--Ireland<br />
22) Theseus--Greece<br />
23) Tecumseh, Native American leader of the Shawnee--Canada<br />
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Every few weeks I will be posting process work and finished portraits of each of these sleepers. Stay tuned!Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01406284671629384091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861285201681189284.post-78510920553236516612011-11-23T13:53:00.000-08:002011-11-23T21:00:50.013-08:00"Was it a vision, or a waking dream?"Illustrations inspired by Romantic poet John Keats' (1795-1821) <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/101/624.html">"Ode to a Nightingale" </a>and William Wordworth's <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2343.html">"Tintern Abbey"</a>.<br />
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