mikeybooch:Pallas Athene, Crowned in Olive Leaves. I’d really like to do a set of these- all twelve

mikeybooch:Pallas Athene, Crowned in Olive Leaves. I’d really like to do a set of these- all twelve Olympians. But we know how I am on following through with personal art projects. Anyway, here’s the grey-eyed goddess, accompanied with her spear, aegis, and owl. I recently read that the owl became a symbol for Athene due to its intense stare, comparable to the goddess’s bright grey eyes; so I created an owl-faced design motif around the openings of her helmet. The brow of the helmet features an olive tree; her contribution to the city of Athens and ultimately the reason she was chosen as the city’s namesake. For her aegis, I combined designs from several sources. I really liked the idea of the cape motif from early Greek art, but I also have always associated the aegis as a sort of breastplate. In the end I split the diff and made the part that was to be Medusa’s head an armored breastplate and fitted that over the scaly cape- best of both worlds if you ask me.  -- source link
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