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illustrating pushkins prologue to rusland and ludmila
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~nordlige-tale Mar 3, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
very good, but Russian mermaid does not have tail - she looks more like ordinary girl with long light brown hair (In Russian the words "Light Brown" (rusyj) and "Mermaid" (rusalka) - cognate) and dressed in white (but there are naked mermaids). They are water, forest and field spirits at once, and they often are in the trees (mostly on birches)... Russian mermaid - the souls of the dead women and young children... this is the evil spirits - they like to kill guys...
Pushkin has one piece about these mermaids..
Why in the prologue of "Ruslan and Ludmila" was Russian mermaid? because in the prologue describes Lukomorye - a place on the island Buyan in Russian mythology х)
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~reminisense Mar 4, 2013  Student General Artist
yeah...
I know that, I was brought up on all of those fairy tales, since I am russian..
this is just my own interpretation,
I don't have to cohere to pushkin's exact visualisations
same as I did with leshiy..
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~DreJay Oct 6, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
You have been featured in my journal :]

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Thanks for your wonderful work!
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~reminisense Oct 6, 2012  Student General Artist
thank you!!!! :hug:
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love this! not enough good mermaid art out there
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~reminisense Jun 23, 2012  Student General Artist
thank you so much!!! <3<3 took so many tries to get it right haha
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*SandraHultsved Jun 13, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
I featured this in my journal: [link]
I love the technique!
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~reminisense Jun 13, 2012  Student General Artist
Thanks so much!
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*SandraHultsved Jun 17, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
You're welcome!
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i love the legend of rusalka, and you have wonderfully immortalized my vision of that creature.
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