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This is the second illustration for my Baba Yaga illustration project. Each night, it is said, she rides through the forest in her mortar, rowing with a pestle and sweeping away the tracks with a broom. I didn't portray the broom here, since I felt the composition worked better without it.

And of course, that charming house balanced on a chicken leg, surrounded by a fence of glowing skulls, waits for her return.

Watercolor and colored pencil on illustration board, 9X12 inches.
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~apeman505 Dec 9, 2008
I love that story, but I ain't heard it in so long that I forget how it goes. I remember the mortar and pestle, the chiggin' foot house, and the skulls, but I don't remember a broom or the glowingness of said skulls....

She looks friggin' awesome! :)

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*windfalcon Dec 9, 2008  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks! Though I'm not sure where the broom is that you're referring to.

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~apeman505 Dec 10, 2008
Oh, I was talking about the broom you mentioned in your artist's comment, where she uses it to steer her mortar.

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*windfalcon Dec 10, 2008  Professional Traditional Artist
Oh! Sorry, I completely forgot about that. :D Yes, in the story I read, she rowed with a pestle and swept the tracks away with a broom, but I thought the composition worked better with only the pestle, so I omitted the broom.

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*Olvium Aug 14, 2008   Traditional Artist
Nice one, great capture of movement.
Baba Yaga kostinaya noga! ;)
I love Russian tales, they made my childhood better :)

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~Terrible-Doll Apr 2, 2008
What a great present for all Russian like me :)
terrific artwork, man. just is awesome!

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*windfalcon Apr 5, 2008  Professional Traditional Artist
I'm glad you like it!

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~LuvLoz Mar 11, 2008  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I like that it seems dark, so you can tell it's night, without losing contrast.
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`karemelancholia Mar 8, 2008

Congrats!!!
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~GreenAngel5 Feb 15, 2008
that is freaky, yet very nicely done and cool :D good job

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