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Helena Štěpánová

"The Last Song of Orpheus" by Helena Štěpánová

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SciFi and Fantasy Art The Last Song of Orpheus by Helena Štěpánová
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Tag As FavoriteComment		Pencil and watercolour. I've always wanted to make a picture of Orpheus... From all Greek myths, this one is probably my favourite (partly thanks to Sandman I guess...;-) And also because it is soooo morbid.). Orpheus doesn't look very 'greek', which is mabe a mistake... Should have had a different profile I think. Nevermind. :-)


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17 Sep 2005:-) Lauren 'Selie' Liebowitz
It IS Orpheus from the myth! His floating singing head after he got torn to pieces! It took me a minute to realize that.

I love Greek mythology. Orpheus art tends to be of him attempting to lead Eurydice out of the underworld, and I haven't seen many pictures of this particular "scene". I think your picture's very effective. It's creepy, disturbing, and beautiful - exactly how a picture like this should be.

1 Helena Štěpánová replies: "Thanks a lot for your nice comment."
17 Sep 2005:-) Shaylee Rose Davis
Wow! I love ur colors! And the feeling! I wouldn't wory about it not looking "greek" ...The pure emotion of pain and the expression on its face will transfer over to any nationality. Wow ur soooooo tallented! Makes me jealous!

:-) Helena Štěpánová replies: "Thank you very much...1 Glad you like it..."
17 Sep 200545 Chaos
Wow.............Dude this rocks!!! Keep it up man!
5 Oct 200545 Felicia Zeller
wow wow wow thisa is so stunning!!!!!!!!!!
awesome picture,really!Ilike how you did the blood mixing with the water!and his eyes....this is almost a bit creepy and scary...thank you for doing this,!!!!!and please keep up your extremely good work!

:-) Helena Štěpánová replies: "Thank you very much."
7 Nov 2005:-) Dan Shevock
Oh, this is so moving. The river is blood. The furies have their revenge. Emotional work.

:-) Helena Štěpánová replies: "Thanks a lot."
3 Oct 2006:-) Veronika 'Lawenta' Prokesova
And you know what? He maybe doesn´t look Greek much, but he surely looks as the son of Dream of the Endless 1 It was the first what came to my mind, even before I´ve read the description.

Apart from that, it´s really very moving picture. It surely has the feel of a legend. Were I not knowing the myth, it would still tell its own story.
It sings.
28 Jan 2007:-) Leonard Farrugia
That's simply awesome.... awesome... *bows low and grovels on the floor* keep up the good work mate...
22 May 2007:-) Svetlana Nikonova
So expression!
14 May 2009:-) MT Starkey
Awesomely morbid. Great colours, expression. I looks like he’s dissolving in a vat of acid. Bloody cool.
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'The Last Song of Orpheus':
 • Created by: :-) Helena Štěpánová
 • Copyright: ©Helena Štěpánová. All rights reserved!

 • Keywords: Dead, Greek, Head, Macabre, Media, Mixed, Mythology, Orpheus, Song
 • Categories: Dream Imagery, Vampires, Zombies, Undeads, Dark, Gothic
 • Techniques: Pencil/Graphite Pen, Watercolour
 • Submitted: 2005-09-10 01:39:51
 • Views: 1056
 • Resolution: 330x700

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