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'Who is this? And what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they crossed themselves for fear,
All the knights at Camelot;
But Lancelot mused a little space
He said, 'She has a lovely face;
God in His mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.'
-Alfred Lord Tennyson (1843)

I wanted to do this piece forever, something different than the usual dead girl in the boat usually associated with this part of the poem. Really just a practice piece, done between working on a contest piece that is taking me forever. This was just supposed to be a quick study illustrating a line from the poem by Tennyson, but ended up taking me much longer. Painted all in Photoshop LE with a Wacom tablet, I spent a very long time on this, most of it on her clothing. (Some of you might say, but she has no clothing. That's because I used a special brush to paint the delicate lace and embroidery work on her dress. It can only be seen by those that are good and pure of heart...oh, wait. That's another tale.) I really did spend a lot of time on the clothes, but never could get them to come out the way I wanted, so I just left them off. (You can comment on the clothing if you want to confuse the folks that don't read the descriptions.)

Seriously, comments and critiques are appreciated.

Reference for 'the lovely face' is from .
Reference for the crucifix (which is a nod to Waterhouse's famous Lady of Shalott painting) is from *enframed .

Description
'Who is this? And what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they crossed themselves for fear,
All the knights at Camelot;
But Lancelot mused a little space
He said, 'She has a lovely face;
God in His mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.'
-Alfred Lord Tennyson (1843)

I wanted to do this piece forever, something different than the usual dead girl in the boat usually associated with this part of the poem. Really just a practice piece, done between working on a contest piece that is taking me forever. This was just supposed to be a quick study illustrating a line from the poem by Tennyson, but ended up taking me much longer. Painted all in Photoshop LE with a Wacom tablet, I spent a very long time on this, most of it on her clothing. (Some of you might say, but she has no clothing. That's because I used a special brush to paint the delicate lace and embroidery work on her dress. It can only be seen by those that are good and pure of heart...oh, wait. That's another tale.) I really did spend a lot of time on the clothes, but never could get them to come out the way I wanted, so I just left them off. (You can comment on the clothing if you want to confuse the folks that don't read the descriptions.)

Seriously, comments and critiques are appreciated.

Reference for 'the lovely face' is from .
Reference for the crucifix (which is a nod to Waterhouse's famous Lady of Shalott painting) is from *enframed .