Felix

Felix. Work in progress today.  St. Felix was a third century saint. There is a legend that he hid the persecuted bishop Maximus in a vacant building. Spiders came to his aid and spun webs across the doorway, fooling the centurions into believing no one had passed through that way. The soldiers were diverted and the two prisoners escaped and lived.

My Felix will be showing off his spider specimens. Work in progress by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.

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

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.