CleoCatra and The Final Stretch

CleoCatra

Cleocatra was the final sketch incentive and was snatched up pretty quickly.  With only 9 hours to go on my kickstarter campaign I am very happy to say that I am currently over my funding goal and have reaching my first stretch goal of 8400.  So now everyone who pledges $15 or more will receive a calendar in addition to the rewards.  

I have instituted a second stretch goal.  If the funding reaches 10,000 by midnight EST then one backer will be raffled an original final painting from the book.  All backers will be eligible for the raffle.  

Thank you to everyone who showed support!

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H is for Hygieia

Okay....so....I think I'm going to challenge myself and create a "Visual Alphabet". Hopefully every week I'll get a letter up. I'd like to say I'm going to stick with mythology and fantasy characters but I might stray into another genre once in a while. So "H" is the first and I'll randomly pick letters here and there.

This is a child portrait of the goddess Hygieia. She was a healer and prevented the spread of disease. She was often depicted as a young woman with one snake and a bowl. The snake represents the delivery of medicine as well as a courier of spirits from the underworld.

Gustav Klimt has a spectacular rendition of Hygieia that I used for inspiration. Go ahead and google that! You know you want to.