Illustration Friday: "The Blues"

...and the sea rolled ashore

and consumed her.

Illustration Friday: "Wedding" (The Lady & Lord Xoc)

Acrylic & Incised Modeling Paste on Illustration Board
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This is inspired from a Maya relief at Chichen Itza of the Lord & Lady Xoc, from the 9th century I think. When a Lord & Lady married they made a sacrifice to the gods of their own blood. There are some more graphic depictions of self-blood letting but I chose to focus on this more "genteel" image, so to speak.