Lorelei (Art)

[Azrienoch]

Named Lorelei after the Fairy Queen in Germanic legends. I pictured her being very beautiful, using that as a symbol of her rank in the fairy realm. I had done some somewhat "cartoony" interpretations of fairies, all being outrageously thin and out of proportion. The idea with this piece was to make her look very real, yet very disproportionate at the same time, modeled after those original sketches.
Andrea, my girlfriend, posed for this...at the time she had extentions, for those of you who know that she has really short hair. It was done with a #2 pencil and a cloth for a smudger. The picture itself is 8x11 1/2". I didn't know anyone with a scanner large enough for it, so I took a picture of it. It turned out perfectly as it is in real life, but I wanted to give it somewhat of an old tone, so I raised the contrast and darkened the whole thing very, very slightly, to get rid of a bit of the grey. I wrote the verse in the picture, which says;

"Amidst the Enchanted Wood,
See her glow, see her fly,
Grant sight unto desiring eyes
Of the toadstool whence the fairy lies."

[Ruthie]

And she has such tiny feet!
Really Az, this is amazing to me. Even my stick-people have such unusually large heads and stubby arms and, I am really impressed. Great Job my friend! Thanks for showing us this side of you.

[Kaya-Nita]

Very nicely done Hun

[Jeb]

This is beautiful Azrienoch. Absolutely beautiful. You have amazing talent. I think you've worked wonders with the contrast, both with the pencil and the adjusted photo. Wonderful!

[Saki]

You did good Azrienoch Melessar, she is very beautiful. You have wonderful handwriting too. (There is the strangest brotherhood/sisterhood coincidence about the way you spell your name BTW)
I've heard of the Lorelei but am not familiar with the legend. I'll go look it up.
Or does she have a special version of the story just for her that you had in mind
for her when you drew her

What an impressive burst of creativity, from you Azrienoch. Its very inspirational.

[Azrienoch]

Thank you! I hadn't really created it with a specific part of a legend or anything, just her in general. I was creating a tattoo that my girlfriend would get for her birthday, and I became inspired by the little versions of her I was doing. So out this popped, and there you have it.

[Loosh]

Very Nice, Azrienoch! Die Lorelei I thought were three (sisters?) who lived on a rock near the Rhine river in Germany. They would sing a song that was enchanting and the sailors would end up ship-wrecked. I think Heinrich Heine had a poem about this legend.

[gandalf2004]

Greetings Azrienoch!

It is a very graceful and delicate work.

Yours under the oaks,

Gandalf

[Azrienoch]

Die Lorelei I thought were three (sisters?) who lived on a rock near the Rhine river in Germany.

From the few books on fairies that I have, Lorelei was related to Maab as the fairy queen. I did some looking around on the net, though for die Lorelei, and found that, in the poem, they are related to the sirens of Homer, but lorelei is just one instead of three sisters, as the sirens are. Oh well, either way. The Fairy queen, by whatever name, is the idea. Thank you for the compliments!

[Kat Lady]

Wandmaker and artist too!
This is beautiful, Azrienoch Melessar. Captures the delicate nature of the fairy realm.

[Robb Hawklord]

Az, I dont know how I missed this, you have done a fantastic image here.

Hawky

[Draghkar]

well done