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The Valkyrie

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Yep, the valkyrie painting is done :). I entered this for a contest over at Epilogue. It depicts a Valkyrie on her silver steed on a war-torn land. The butterfly she is looking at is the manifestation of a soul of warriors who died on the battlefield. So, this picture has a combo of norse myth (valkyrie), greek myth (pegasus) and japanese myth (spirit butterfly), hohoho :XD:

My original plan for this is a more complex, epic landscape pic depicting the legend of valkyries leading the souls of brave norse warriors, who died on the battlefield, towards Valhalla (Norse myth heaven) so that they can fight for the gods. But, erm, I got lazy and tone down the scope... ^^;

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i love that you did not mess with the helmet wings