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frisket17 β Aztec Priestess - Watercolor
Published: 2006-06-12 06:24:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 34087; Favourites: 774; Downloads: 1824
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I generally dislike generic wolf characters, but if people can make them work like this then it's okay.
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I adore this whole piece. I'm particularly impressed with the Quetzalcoatl. Beautiful detail work.
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just a question.... why is she a fox and not a human? i haven't seen any Mexicans that look like that.
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Te quedΓ³ excelente! Siento bonito cuando hay trabajos relacionados con las culturas prehispΓ‘nicas de MΓ©xico muy buenos
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eres tu la zorra que esta arriba de la serpiente ??
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wow is QuetzalcΓ³atl, i am Mexican and like this picture and you job is amazed.
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I Hate watercolor but this picture made me change my mind it kicks watercoloring in the ass
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I Hate watercolor but this picture made me change my mind it kicks watercoloring in the ass
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you have been featured here [link] for the Watcher's feature section of *Word-worth-1000-pics community project
enjoy ! and have a great w-e
*Aimelle (founder/admin)
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Oh wow. Thank you very kindly :}
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Woah. I love the vibrant colors. It's so exotic-looking.
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oh my lord! I have never seen a Devianation including the Aztec elements and quite frankly awsome species choice reguarding the Aztecian (O3O strange word teehee) and I am just so blown away I am personally gonna favorite this.!!!
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Outstanding! I love the colors and the Aztec elements in this!
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well i'm mexican and so... wooonderfuuuuuuuuuuuullllll
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Very awesome work!
You took the "spirit of the jungle". 
*favs*
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Wow, that's awesome. you did that by hand?? I mess up so easily when i try to paint by hand, so I use digital watercolors to feel like I'm not wasting $50 worth of paint. I love the guardian (it really looks like an Aztec guardian) and the priestess's design (not human. ^___^). The quetzal's adorable... How do you put your name on it watermarked like that? The semi-invisible name would help, since my signature's so icky...
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the watermark is done by a layer on photoshop called 'emboss'
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beautiful! your traditional work is amazing
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OH i love this image.............can i ask you something about this i know its late for me to comment on this cause its not new but....can you note me about this pic id love to get a good picture of it and turn it into a tattoo with your permission
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actually it's best if you note me. I'm highly distracted/busy lately n' don't have a good memory
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Exelent work, all of it...CONGRATULATIONS XD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pretty quetzal( I dont know how to spell it but I LOVE the pose!)
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HOLY CRAP THIS IS SO COOL!! O.O
i love the colors, and the dragon is just awesome! 
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Why do you like the aztecs so much? I'm just curious, because I'm a huge fan of them as well. Seeing as how I come from their country. XD
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It's a fascinating culture. One of the biggest things is the art. I'm an Art Major.. Their art (be it stone work, jewelry, painting...extremely unique way of color blending) and their lore is always fascinating to me
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I love the colors they use. Turquoises and golds and silvers and oranges and reds.
Haha. They're my type of colors.
Also the idea of a feathered snake is just extremely appealing to me. <3
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Well one reason those colors were used a lot, I'm sure you know, is a relation back to the raw materials they had access too. They used gold (and it is why a lot of the killing happened) because they had ample amounts of the substance. Turquoise was used due to the fact, again, a raw material found. They use those blues, greens and whites because turquoise is not always that robin's egg blue we think of (Actually the company in New York, Tiffany, created the common word/color association) Turquoise comes in many shades
Also, the red and oranges found in their work are heavily inspired by the coral (again, they had a lot of access to it) they had around them.
Like many cultures, their lore and gods stemmed from misconcepted ideas, history, and views of the world - and the feathered snakes and the like are actually based on the queztal bird -- When flying, it's long tails (since it was so high up) gave the impression it was not a bird, but a flying feathered snake. That's how that lore got started
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And then there are the other versions, about how quetzalcoatl is the um 'christ' of Mexico. Or so I heard in my Mexican History class. I thought thta was the most interesting theory of all, because there are some accounts made by the Aztecs where it says this one guy really did believe in one god. The only monotheist of the um, the 'empire?'. City? eh.
When I think of turquoise I tend to think of this color: [link]
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