SF&F Picture 1 out of 34 by Antti Korhonen.

SciFi and Fantasy Art: Wolf's Bride

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A living, powerful breath moved through the woods like giant lungs had breathed out and the entire wilderness shook with the tread of invisible steps and great wings, the breadth of which no mortal has ever measured hid the wilderness in a darkness more secret than the shade of the wildwood spruce. For this wolf was Diabolus Sylvarum, or the Spirit of the Woods, only now revealing himself in his true shape.

So a bliss that has no measure and which the mortal world cannot contain came over Aalo and into her soul was poured a happiness for which the human language has no expression because of the wonderful and plenteous joy with which it sates the thirsty. At this moment she was one with the Spirit of the Woods, that powerful Daemon, who had chosen her in wolf shape and
and taken into his possesion and all boundaries were undone between them so that they melted into each other, like two drops of dew come together so that none can tell them apart.

And she was dispersed as the whisper of the dark spruces, trickled as golden sap from the red side of the pine, dissipated as the moisture on the green moss for she was Diabolus Sylvarum's own and prey to Satan.

Wolf's Bride by Aino Kallas (badly translated by me)
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Wolf's Bride is one of my favorite pieces of Finnish literature. It's an early 20th century novel, written in archaic ballad form, about a forester's wife who finds freedom and extacy running with the werewolves. Powerful text, really.

Im pretty happy with the two wolves but i don't like her face and the overall composition seems to be off-balance..


	Image censored due to its Parental Rating level (#3 of 4), as set by the artist...


	Categories: [Lycanthrope, Were-folk, etc] [Woman, Women] Techniques: [Pencil/Graphite Pen] [Coloured Pencils] [Black Ink] [Computer-coloured Picture]

Date	Name	Comment
21 Nov 2005	Johanna Iso-Järvenpää	Loading... What caught me, was the overall style you use. It reminds me delightfully of the certain Finnish artists from the Karelianism period: Galen-Kallela, Simberg, Halonen... Do you admire that period, too? Besides art history, your works has a sense of a deep Finnish forests. Maybe it's the dark, carefully chosen colours and the thick but at the same time precise lines you draw. Anyway, I hope I'll bump into your art in the new additions some day again. It was a pleasure. Antti Korhonen replies: "Thank you ! Yes, the Finnish National Romaticism is my absolute favourite art period. I quess it shows."

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