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Baba Yaga
Published: 2012-04-12 12:27:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 16713; Favourites: 595; Downloads: 0
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Slavic forest hag witch, who lives in a house supported on chicken legs surrounded by a fence of skulls. I included the psychoactive Fly Agaric mushrooms as the tale has hints of shamanic roots - she rides around in a pestle and mortar. Decorated with a border of Pysanky egg symbols.Available as a print at www.etsy.com/uk/listing/124617…
Title: Baba Yaga
Date Completed: 2009
Dimensions: 12in x 9in
Materials used: Fineliner & watercolour on paper
Price of Original: Not currently for sale
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Comments: 58
Kto by pomyślał, że tyle nauczę się o genezie tych imion z angielskiego komentarza 
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Dzięki!
Nice to meet You Agnieszko!
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It's my pleasure!
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This is simply astounding! I tip my hat to you, I really do! That DD was well deserved.
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Great.
Reminds of nice tale books with Bilibin's illustrations I had in the childhood.
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Are you interested in Russian culture and fairy-tails?)
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Ahh, tales of her used to get us children to bed early!
Wonderful work, as always.
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I love Baba Yaga - the border framing her is amazing - great work!
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Admitedly, it's hard to find a more accurate mental picture of this Slavic myth. Your attention to detail is officially legendary.
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Oh my goodness does this ever bring back memories! ^^ My grandmother used to have an old book full of even older fairy tales, and every times I stayed with her I would read it over and over... This is quite the amazing piece of art and it brought back some good memories for me! 
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Awesome!^^ I remember learning about this on Arthur when I was a child! :'D
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O.o This brings back some memories from my childhood....
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Love it! Baba Yaga is one of my favorite witches/Hags.
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I'm Serbian, and we are of Slavic decent, I grew up with the mythology. She is also seen in some parts as the Winter, opposed to Vesna, who is Spring. I really like your interpretation of her! I love seeing that someone is interested in our mythology
If you want any more info about Slavic stuff I'm here
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dear !!! you have a DD ! that is really great !! from now on you will have a lot of fans here !
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It's reminds me Ivan Bilibin's illustration
Very nice!
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She is not a witch. She is a barren old woman and she knows good and evil and shaman sorcery.
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One of my favorite characters in Slavic mythology.
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I love the whole idea of Baba Yaga and her moving house & the fly agaric mushrooms are a nice touch. This is one of the best drawings that I've seen of Baba Yaga & well worthy of a DD. Well done!!
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really nice =o
i've also made a drawing of Baba Yaga awhile ago: [link]
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A fantastic depiction of the quintessential evil witch. This deserves the DD.
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Great!I read about Baba Yaga last year and felt like I knew it all along.somethings are engraved in human minds.
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This is really good. I like how you drew on the story's roots and added such detail. Excellent job.
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Wonderful colours; I would have loved this to be a bit bigger, so I can really see the detail. Nevertheless, it's amazing. Congrats.
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And she likes to eat human flesh too... especially the children, I think
i love your illustration.
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Oh yes!! Our witches looove children!! Chop them, bake them, and eat them!
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Nice to see such a good artwork done on our folklore
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Thanks, I love working on folklore themes such as this
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