Far from my typical work, I realize. For one, the vast expanse of whiteness. Oh my! For another, no, this is NOT a boy.
Felt like doing something a bit more 'traditional', I guess.
I'm trying to overstep my aversion of drawing females, cause I really don't know what that aversion is all about, really.
Anyway, I hope you like it a bit despite it being something completely unlike me.

Either way, my little tribute of the passing of winter into spring.

The title:
Persephone, the Greek Goddess

Persephone is the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, goddess of the harvest. Persephone was such a beautiful young woman that everyone loved her, even Hades wanted her for himself. One day, when she was collecting flowers on the plain of Enna, the earth suddenly opened and Hades rose up from the gap and abducted her. None but Zeus, and the all-seeing sun, Helios, had noticed it.

Broken-hearted, Demeter wandered the earth, looking for her daughter until Helios revealed what had happened. Demeter was so angry that she withdrew herself in loneliness, and the earth ceased to be fertile. Knowing this could not continue much longer, Zeus sent Hermes down to Hades to make him release Persephone. Hades grudgingly agreed, but before she went back he gave Persephone a pomegranate (or the seeds of a pomegranate, according to some sources). When she later ate of it, it bound her to underworld forever and she had to stay there one-third of the year. The other months she stayed with her mother. When Persephone was in Hades, Demeter refused to let anything grow and winter began. This myth is a symbol of the budding and dying of nature. In the Eleusinian mysteries, this happening was celebrated in honor of Demeter and Persephone, who was known in this cult as Kore.

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Charcoal on 90 lb. paper
16" x 20"
Model: Unknown

Original Sold: Herschbach Germany