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"Promises Remembered" by Rachael Mayo

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SciFi and Fantasy Art Promises Remembered by Rachael Mayo

Finally, this mammoth project is complete.

In the year of our Lord 4046, it falls to Noah's great-great-great (x82) grandson to take with him all of Earth's animals, the original real ones as well as the beautiful, fantastic ones that Mankind has dreamed up. He and his wife gather them all, two by two, and with the city-sized Ark Mark II go to settle on a whole new world.

This is a commission and gift for my good friend Dave S., his wife Jennifer and their daughter Grace. To Grace: Happy very, very belated first birthday.

I used a watercolor wash as an underpainting, but the vast majority of the detailing has been done with colored pencil.

I have also uploaded a HUGE version of this picture so that the dozens of creatures can be seen more clearly.

Date	Name	Comment
27 Aug 2005	Guan-antou'di	Loading... it looks like noahs future ark...or was that in the discription... i read it quick so i cant remember! ! i wanna be int he picture! i wanna see all the cute (when i say cute i mean big n ferosious) alimables! i saw this on your devinart thing! i had aloy to say, but i dont know how to co,ment there...so i forgot all iw anted to say there, and made something up here!
16 Oct 2005	Li'l welsh fairy	Loading... Spiders! y spiders!!! aaaaaaarrrgghh get em off. apart from the - the those 8leggy things, this is so cool (the mermaid waving in the background is cite to)
26 Dec 2005	Ember	Loading... OMG!!! ZEBRAS!!!!! I'm sorry, I just LOVE zebras. They are the coolest animals on Earth. About a month ago, I drew a zebra-pegasus, and your zebras are almost exactly the same. I mean, I love the whole thing, but those zebras are frekin' awesome!!
12 Jan 2006	Jade the Predator	Loading... So I'm NOT the only one who noticed the inbreeding problem with the Ark... Anyways. I stared at this picture in total and complete SHOCK. This is f-...err..really awesome! The details! Colors! Animals! Ideas! Dammit! And I thought my "Mixies" were creative...
6 Sep 2006	Laurel	Loading... Wow what a cool colection of animals!! Dang!
22 Sep 2006	Imola L Saraine aka Mio	Loading... Thinking on Adam and Eve... aren't we all siblings? Appart from the many good things others already listed I want to highlight how well you have blended the meeting lines of the different regions intogether. I am sure my daughters would spend weeks just sitting in front of it and pointing things out to me. Well done.Thank you very much. Backgrounds are challenging for me to do, so I am glad that all of the elements of the background for Promises Remembered work together. I made this picture for a small child with exactly the idea that she would spend many happy days looking at all of the different animals and colors. ^_^
20 Mar 2008	Mackenzie Taylor	Loading... I can’t imagine a better first birthday present! This is an absolutely beautiful piece of artwork, I can’t imagine the time and effort that must have gone into it... I know it was a gift for someone special so I understand that making prints might undermine the meaning in it... but otherwise I would absolutely want one!! Once again your artwork leaves me breathless.
16 Nov 2008	Silverwing Talise Moonwater	Loading... INCREDIBLELY AWESOMELY WONDERFULLY INSANELY FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rachael Mayo replies: "LOL - My goodness, thank you! Stop and take a breath, there...."
14 May 2010	Emma Stephenson	Loading... if humans are horribly inbred, that explains a lot.
19 Jul 2011	Dimphy Schildermans	Loading... hey i love the way you draw cats... they are a bit more tiger-ish that normal, but i REALLY do like them!!
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'Promises Remembered':

• Created by:

Rachael Mayo
• Copyright: ©Rachael Mayo. All rights reserved!

• Keywords: Animal, Ark, Astronaut, Color, Detail, Fantastic, Future, Gift, Noah, Pencil, Space, Watercolor
• Categories: Dragons, Drakes, Wyverns, etc, Landscape, Nature, Panoramic, Mythical Creatures & Assorted Monsters, Spaceships, Ships, Bessels, Transportation..., European Traditions, Mythology, Asian Traditions, Mythology, African Traditions, Mythology
• Techniques: Coloured Pencils, Watercolour
• Submitted: 2005-07-06 20:27:29
• Views: 3341
• Resolution: 800x610

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