LEDA AND THE SWAN

This original artwork depicts the Greek myth of the Spartan queen Leda and Zeus who has taken the form of a swan in order to seduce her whilst simultaneously escape the jealous vengeance of his wife Hera... wife's eh? Even back then, in the entirely ficticious past, they were finding a way to kill a dude's buzz.

This particular myth has been a constant inspiration for art and sculpture with them leaning more often than not towards the "spicy" variety, however, I'm a clean living conservative who respects his mother so I set this piece about two minutes before the bare-arsed boxing match started. This particular myth acts as progenitor to both Illiad and Odyssey as the union begets Helen whose great beauty and loose knickers launched a thousand ships. It also bore Pollux, twin half-brother of Castor, collectively known as the Dioskouroi and the constellation Gemini.

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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Framed Greek Mythology Artwork - Leda and the Swan

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