This is a follow up to a painting I did last year of Beowulf tearing off Grendel's arm. I recently decided to carry on with the next part; Beowulf facing Grendel's mother.
My idea behind Grendel and his mother is that they represented the last in a lineage of an old, isolated shamanistic clan that still worshipped the Northern European pagan deities. Their continued survival and propagation (and monstrous appearance) has since depended on a combination of inbreeding and black magic. It makes for good motivation for me as the interpreter of these characters but I don't think I could instill all that in one painting. So I've dropped hints such as the burning alter which depicts the Venus of Willendorf and Grendel's body lying on a mound of the skeletal remains of his stillborn siblings.
My idea behind Grendel and his mother is that they represented the last in a lineage of an old, isolated shamanistic clan that still worshipped the Northern European pagan deities. Their continued survival and propagation (and monstrous appearance) has since depended on a combination of inbreeding and black magic. It makes for good motivation for me as the interpreter of these characters but I don't think I could instill all that in one painting. So I've dropped hints such as the burning alter which depicts the Venus of Willendorf and Grendel's body lying on a mound of the skeletal remains of his stillborn siblings.
For sorry the dream goes blur it didn't show me what happened next but then but cops had arrived.
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The house was in a sunken town, but this house was half sanken. And inhabited!
Anyway, its a great work and story behind make it worthy.
I enjoyed being here, keep it up.
And am I the only one here that noticed the tears?
My depiction isn't quite as (awesomely) nasty as this, but a bit closer to what I envision the depiction of her in "Grendel", but she's still not Jolie or lil' miss Playboy.
Film makers, y u make Mama Grendel sexy
lovely mum you got thar grendel...
Peace.
-Noel
P.S. I LOVE your signature
they dont deserve 2 b killd just kuz they dont look prutE or friendly
*wants 2 kill the inconsiderate slayer* X<
u can tell im an enviromentalist cant u *.*;
hee hee ^ ^ guilty! Xp
I really love your interpretation of Grendal's mother, I think she looks amazing! It's an incredable form and the head has such great form. F*ck Angelina Jole as Grendal's mom! This is much better.
I agree! Why can't the people in Hollywood think more like that? I'd much rather see a true-to-the-story visual representation than all of this butt-licking/kissing to the masses. And if they dare try to hide behind that flimsy excuse of artistic license...*cracks knuckles*
Overall: Visuals-Incredible Plot-enough to make the visuals not worth it Angelina Jolie- ummm.... why?
also, I have man parts *looks seductive* *laughs* sorry, I'm creepy, I get it all the time.
The only movie I like her in is 'Girl, Interupted' which was a bit of a confusing book by the way, but a great movie.
Hey, that's alright! I don't mind creepy for the most part, and I'll tell you when it's getting a little weird for me; I must say though, I disagree with one of your statements and say that Easy-Cheese is quite delish, and if I could still eat it I would. The best is the spray-cheese because I can pile it all up on a cracker and write my name with it!
Also, I haven't seen that movie, I don't watch movies all that often.
It's not that the CGI made it better, I was just stunned by the amount of detail they got.
ugh, easy cheese is an abomination of food...
also *is creepy in your general direction*