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The Selkieby ~madeloupe

Traditional Art / Paintings / Fantasy

Another Area of Concentration for AP art... I'm very fond of how this turned out. The woman is a selkie, one of the many shapeshifter myths... they shift by taking off their sealskins, and legend goes if you steal a selkie's skin while she's in human form, she's bound to the land. Lots of men in legend got selkie wives by stealing their skins, but given the chance, if she finds he skin, she'll return to the sea.

You can see a bit of her shed seal-skin on the rock behind her... I wanted it more obvious, but it didn't fit, alas.

Anyway, I like watercolors. I did this with only four colors, too. Pthalo Blue, Medium Yellow, Payne's Grey and Burnt Umber. Mmm, limited color pallette.

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~ScaryGnome Jun 29, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I love this so much!!!

*Selkieblues Jul 9, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I love this very beautiful and emotive, Jan

~svenmarie Jul 17, 2009

I really like the eerie atmosphere of this! It's great that you gave her a more seal-like appearance than most selkie pictures I've seen. I especially like her nose and mouth.

~Imaginary-Shadow Jun 14, 2009

So beautiful!! >w<

And cute~ ;w;

~Guppa May 5, 2009

I love it! I L O V E selkies! I'm so glad to see that others do to.

~NemotheDreamer Apr 25, 2009 Student Traditional Artist

Beautiful! I love your take on selkie, and the colorings are marvelous!

~sanely-insane Apr 22, 2009 Student Traditional Artist

You did a wonderufl job on this. :3

~AylaElphabaMidna Jul 28, 2007

Cool! I love selkie stories. I agree with ~kecen, the selkie looks childlike, which I really like about this picture. And the eyes are cool. I've sometimes imagined it being the other way around--that in seal form, the selkie might have human-like eyes.

Nice work!

!Ghostpipe Jul 9, 2007

I love how her eyes are like the other seal's eyes. And I really love how seal-like her whole person is - especially the face and long fingers.

Beautiful work!

~vikrana Feb 6, 2007

There we go that is what a selkie looks like much better than some other peoples drawings of selkies! very nice work!![link]
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