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LEDA AND THE SWAN



Leda and the Swan by Daniel Read



This original artwork depicts the Spartan queen Leda and Zeus who has taken the form of a swan in order to seduce her. This union begets both Helen whose great beauty launched a thousand ships, and Pollux who crewed on Jason's Argo.


This was drawn using a stylus. Leda was based on a stock reference photo of a woman (one of those awful generic business stocks, she's originally wearing a business suit and holding a globe), I just "Greeked" her up a bit and for Zeus I used a reference photograph of... wait for it... a swan.


This bad boy is for me, it's A2 in size and is going up in my house somewhere once I have won enough wife points.


I hope you dig it.

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This is awesome!

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Thank you, I’m glad you like it.

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