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"Angel of Babylon" by Ursula Vernon
SF&F Picture 9 out of 78 by Ursula Vernon
  | Once upon a time, in my youth, my mother would haul me off to church. She meant well, and little did she know that some idiot had already told me that God and dinosaurs were incompatible, and velociraptors won hands down over the competition. (Maturity gave me a whole lotta other reasons, but that was the first.) In those days, to keep from perishing of boredom, I would read the only thing on hand, namely the Bible. The Book of Revelations wasn't as good as the Hobbit, but it still had dragons and angels and plagues and St. John could really rave when he got going, so I probably read the thing over a hundred times. Many years later, I was vaguely contemplating how the various women in the Bible get a dreadfully bad rap, particularly if they dared to have sex. (Mary didn't, but again...sex.)And, as I was playing around with those grafitti wings that I keep coming back to, I remembered the good 'ol Whore of Babylon, mother of prostitutes and abominations, etc, etc. Now there was a chick, even a metaphorical one, and talk about bad raps! So I set out to paint something along those lines, as sympathetically as possible, and this is what I came up with. She's not a nice woman, perhaps, but she's a powerful, sexual one, and while I couldn't make her entirely sympathetic, I could at least make her human. |
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About 'Angel of Babylon':
• Status: OK
• Created by:
Ursula Vernon• Copyright: ©Ursula Vernon. All rights reserved!
• Keywords: Angel, Babylon, Woman, Biblical, Dragon, Tattoo
• Categories: Angels, Religious, Spiritual, Holy, Erotic Fantasies, Sexy..., Woman, Women
• Techniques: Computer Painted from Scratch
• Views: 21368
• Resolution: 421x650
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