The Greek god Pan is distracted from his music making by a butterfly.Here's a close up of his head at 100% original working size
This is a Finnish Lohikaarme Dragon - directly translated, this means "salmon-snake", but the word lohi means crags or rocks, a "mountain snake". A classic Red Dragon.Painted in Photoshop. WIP.References and European Dragon Mythology on Wikipedia.
Fallen viking warriors are welcomed to Asgard by Thor, before passing through to Valhalla.
Greek goddess of the moon and wilderness.References: 1 2 3 4 5 (with permission) There is a higher resolution image and/or wider crop.Thank you so much for the wonderful advice (you know who you are)!
oilpainting on wood, 60cmx60cm,
I've never had to do so much last minute work! (those yellow spots on their skin in the contest view is a lot clearer in the bigger version!)These are the three gorgon sisters. While Medusa is the most famous one, she had two sisters, according to some myths. There is Stheno and there is Euryale. I also went for the stories in which the gorgons were pretty, and not very monsterlike.Here is a closer crop of the three Gorgons, in case you want to see that.
The half-human, half-goat creature from Greek mythology.
Big feet, big problems.He gets by with a little help from his friends.