Brine

I've finished my painting, Brine.

Here is how the listing looks at my Etsy shop. You can find out more about this piece Here at My Good Babushka.

Brine

Some nice pictures of my work in progress. This piece is called "Brine". If you are interested in the folklore that inspired this piece, please see yesterday's post.

Brine

Started blocking in color for my painting of three young persons, somewhat androgynous, cherubic things, floating about in a jar of preservative. This is based on my reading of the lore of St. Nicholoas and the apocryphal story of him resurrecting three children who had been murdered and stored in brine.

Brine

I was researching the folklore around St. Nicholas and came across the story about him resurrecting three young people who had been killed and put in brine barrels, according to some lore, they were going to be cooked and eaten. Nicholas restored these young people to life through his faith. I have grappled with sketching this in some fashion, but I wanted to make it accessible and interesting to people who are not particularly interested in St. Nicholas. I settled for sketching three young people in a specimen jar. This would be prior to the resurrection. I like the repetitiveness of the similar figures, and I like making long, elegant fingers, wafting about in formaldehyde, perhaps.