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Morrigan decided for me that I should be done drawing for now 1
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Laika
In total the Soviet Union sent seventy-one dogs up to space during the thirty years of 1957 and 1987, in a frantic race with the United States to establish their superiority in space technology. Though public interest began in 1951, it wasn’t until six years later that the Soviets won their first victory, on October 4th of 1957 when they successfully launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. Buoyed by the success, Premier Nikita Krushchev wanted something even more spectacular only a month later, to celebrate the 40 year anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on November 7th.
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The Tower
This piece originally came from an attempt at getting over art block. I’ve found rain frogs just completely cure it and can get me into a new creative groove. It didn’t take long for me to realize that I’ll never be able to top this piece. It is my magnum opus, my pièce de résistance.I call it The Tower, partially because it’s literally a tower of three rain frogs stacked on top of each other, and partially as a nod to the tarot card. In tarot, The Tower is one of the scariest cards that can be drawn in a…
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Medusa
The inspiration from this piece comes from the life cycle of jellyfish. They go from egg, to larva, to polyp, ephyra, to the adult medusa phase. After learning this, I had one thing in my mind, to depict the Greek mythological snake woman as jellyfish instead.There are numerous version of the story of Medusa, the earliest depicting her simply as a hideous monster that is so ugly any who look at her is turned to stone. The demigod Perseus slays her with the help of the gods and uses her severed head as a weapon, turning enemies to stone. As…
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Incitatus
When most people hear the name Caligula they think of the ruler of Ancient Rome renowned for his cruelty and so insane he appointed his favorite horse to the senate. While this might not be inaccurate, more recently historians have been questioning some of the claims. The majority of these accounts were written well after his death and may have been an attempt to slander the previous ruler to give more credibility to those that came after him.Caligula was born in 12 CE to the great general Germanicus and August Ceasar’s granddaughter Agrippina the Elder of the first ruling family…
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Cher Ami
Near the end of the first World War, in November of 1917 the U.S. Army Corps’ Pigeon Service was founded. Of the six hundred English bred birds donated to the service was one named Cher Ami, meaning “dear friend” in French.In October of 1918, during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, he along with 59 other pigeons assigned to the the 77th Infantry Division, were the desperate last attempt to communicate that the battalion was under friendly fire. After the deaths of human messengers, and also multiple birds, Cher Ami was sent with the message: 1