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Published: 2011-08-23 22:12:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 2511; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 50
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One of my Gods of England paintings.This is Kara a goddesses and Valkyrie mentioned in the Icelandic Sagas.
She protected her hero/lover by singing above the battlefield to distract his enemies. Unfortunately he got over enthusiastic and chopped her leg with his sword and the spell broke.
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interesting: why do you call it gods of england ? with english gods i rather associate celtig gods like lugh or dagda.
nevertheless, good paintings.
greetz,svart
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The English gods came over with the Saxons Angles and Jutes in the fifth century. Tew, Woden (ancestor of the British royal family), Thuner (whose name shifted to Thor in England in the 9/10th century when we were overun by Vikings), Frigg, Ing Frey, Eostre, Hretha etc. Our records of the myths are very poor so we borrow at lot from Scandinavia.
The Romano-British culture almost disappeared in England, all but a couple of place names are Germanic or Norse. My home town Wycombe derives from 'Wic Ham' a very common village name here.
I tried to give a English feel to the costumes. Doesn't show much with Kara but she does have a Sutton Hoo lyre.
The Celtic deities are remembered in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. And by neopagans everywhere as Celtic mythology has been fasionable since about 1880.
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I see, its very near to "our" gods...I wont belive its just similarity 
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There are no written records so we know very little about the pre Celtic peoples. We only have the archeaology.
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Ignore the fear smiley I dont know why that appeared
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this is really good work
and I like reading about goddesses histories
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I love your art style and coloring. We often don't see a traditional artist who does it quite as good--nor cute!--as you. It reminds me of artwork from a children's book, simple yet still gorgeous in it's own way. Good job!
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Thank you.
I deliberately used bright colours on these to give them a more old world feel - I am not sure myself what style I was using 
I wasn't aiming for cute, but at least she has got clothes on, certainly not one of the 'I want to draw boobies' valkyrie pictures
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She's always been one of my favorite Valkyries, even though I'm not entirely sure why... 
What kind of surface are these painted on, by the way? c:
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Glad you like.
Surface? Photocopier paper, no expense spared
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Wow, it's really just photocopier paper..? o: Incredible! Looking at the photo, it almost seems to have a fancy textured sheen to it, so that's why I was wondering! xD But maybe that illusion just comes from the paint..!
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Oh apologies I forgot this is a photo of a laminated copy of the orginal. Hence the shiny surface. No magic involved
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Ohhh, that makes sense then!
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