"Athamas" by Nat Gellert

You have a wonderfully unique style! I really love the composition of this work! The colors are beautiful! This drawing has a very surreal quality to it!

Nat Gellert replies: "Thank you! I am positively surprised by the relation to surrealism."

whew natta ! (*adds a first comment hops* for Kathy) =D
really great pic, I like the poseidon face in the background very much! (though, if I as the poor little sketcher can tell =P -maybe his mouth would be better a little broader?) anyway- great how you did the face and sweet that also the rainbow is there =) looks greek indeedy!

Nat Gellert replies: "Thanks; however...I won`t change it anymore!"

Awesome. This is quite a beautiful piece. Let's see: your style and approach to the story is captivating--the watercolors are delicate (Love the woman's green eyes and red lips), it's very emotional. Good job!

I'm happy to see that someone portrayed a more obscure piece of Greek mythology. I love your style. I recognize a definite Klimt influence, but the style is decidedly unique. I like it all, but I think my favorite bit is the wavy lines in the background face, their wiggly variations are delicious.

nice idea to create a face out of the sea. I like it but I do not like the childs face. it´s alittel bit scary ´cause it reminds me of an alien or sth. like that. but nevertheless a nice coloring. hang on!

This is so cool, the concept is so origanal everytime you look at it you see a new thing! Very mind boggoling! I am a huge fan of Greek Mythology!

Very nice faces. From the three faces I mostly like the childs one.

Nat Gellert replies: "And I mostly like yours!"

heya there again! U left me a chalange in my gallery - to come and to check out your mythology pic - and i must admit - I loveeeeeeee your pic and style - of course i remember the story - ino was one of semele's (mother of dyonisos) sisters - that was jelous or didn't belived to semele was zeus lover - so they told her to ask zeus to apear in his all glory - and so semele died - burned to death - her son survived And ino helped to rise him.
Well ino herself got married to king Athamas, that got tired of his first wife - that cried to hera about this.
But there was olso a problem - they got famine - and they were said that they must to sacrafise one of the children from the first wife (ino bribrd the mesanger that came from oracle) - in the end they were saved - but thats another story. Safice to say that ino wanted this sacrafice beecouse she wanted one of her children to have the trone later.
Hera were angry at Nrphele the first wife and on Ino becouse she helped to rise dyonisos, so sed strack athamas with madness - and he killed one of his sones from ino, Ino was scared so she took the second son - melicertes, and in anguish jumped with him into a river and drawned.
Zeus, didn't wanted her to go to tartarus - so he turned her to to sea godess - Leucotha (the white godesses) and her son to palaemon. In other version - Ino were strack with madness hersef - and she boiled her so and only then she drawned.
In any case - all her family hada bad luck - some say it is becouse dyonisos - that wasn't someone safe to be near.
Hope u like that

Nat Gellert replies: "Thank you for this comment!Further people now can read the whole story and that`s quite nice!"

This is really cool... My mom painted a mother with her child just the same way!!! It's totally her style! Wow... You've done a great job on this! I specially like the shadow on her cheecck. And the fishes with the hidden waterface - they are just awesome... My congrats!!!

Nat Gellert replies: "Thank you. I wih I could see your mother`s pic!"