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Lady of Winter

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"Her wraith rides the crystal sky of changing colors
The glowing clouds are moving through the winter night
Snow is falling, silver shining
Through the shadows deep blue dreaming eyes of diamond shine"

- Crimson Glory: Lady of Winter


Skadi - the Winter Goddess

I have a personal tradition of drawing Christmas/Yuletide cards for a long time - but I wouldn't have done this without WanderingMage's [link] call for a Heathen Yule card. It gave me motivation and a deadline, so well - it was done in a hurry and thus turned out a complete mix of media.
I used some stock images for wolf references [link] [link] [link] - the fourth one is one of my dogs. Skadi and the wolves are drawn with pencils and fineliner and coloured and altered in corel software. Background is photo manipulation on mountainside stock [link] and a photo of mine of the river near my place at home, taken last winter.

Skadi probably is my favourite Goddess - I always imagined her much the way like Tarja Turunen... this might reflect in the picture - bear with me. Musical inspirations come from Tarja's "My Winter Storm", Hagalaz Runedance's "Wake Skadi" and Crimson Glory's "Lady of Winter"

Photomanipulation is not really my cup of tea, only tried it two or three times before, so maybe I will remake the background sometime... probably whem I'm old and grey and have limitless time for producing art. Ha! This most probably will never happen!

Frohe Weihnacht / Merry Yule to all!
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asguardviking's avatar
I love this view of Skadi, very well done and fits her well! Hail!